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Appreciation and criticism of Reichenbach's meta-ethics

Achilles' heel of the system?

Cynthia Schuster

pp. 721-730

Abstrakt

Non-cognitivism in ethics is strictly entailed by Reichenbach's epistemology. Having settled for a functional conception of knowledge, with prediction as the one and only function or purpose of knowledge, Reichenbach was committed to ethical non-cognitivism, i.e. to the view that there is no normative or prescriptive knowledge, that there are no moral truths, that moral judgements are neither true nor false.

Publication details

Published in:

Salmon Wesley C. (1979) Hans Reichenbach: logical empiricist. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 721-730

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9404-1_25

Referenz:

Schuster Cynthia (1979) „Appreciation and criticism of Reichenbach's meta-ethics: Achilles' heel of the system?“, In: W. C. Salmon (ed.), Hans Reichenbach, Dordrecht, Springer, 721–730.