EMPIRICAL ETHICS AND ITS ALLEGED META-ETHICAL FALLACIES |
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| Authors: | ROB DE VRIES BERT GORDIJN |
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| Institution: | Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre –IQ Healthcare –Section Ethics, Philosophy &History of Medicine, Netherlands;
Dublin City University, Ireland |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | empirical ethics is-ought problem naturalistic fallacy fact-value distinction |
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