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) c...

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Authors: Vries, Rob De (Author) ; Gordijn, Bert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
In: Bioethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 193-201
Further subjects:B empirical ethics
B fact-value distinction
B Naturalistic Fallacy
B Is-ought problem
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