Empirical ethics and its alleged meta-ethical fallacies.
This paper analyses the concept of empirical ethics as well as three meta-ethical fallacies that empirical ethics is said to face: the is-ought problem, the naturalistic fallacy and violation of the fact-value distinction. Moreover, it answers the question of whether empirical ethics (necessarily) commits these three basic meta-ethical fallacies.
de Vries
Rob
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Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, IQ Healthcare, Section Ethics, Philosophy & History of Medicine, The Netherlands. r.devries@iq.umcn.nl
Gordijn
Bert
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