O APLIKACI METOD VĚDECKÉHO ZDŮVODNĚNÍ A VYSVĚTLENÍ V ETICE

• Authors: Radim Bělohrad , Zdenka Jastrzebmská

Title variants

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On the application of the methods of scientific justification and explanation in ethics

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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This work presents an analysis of the analogy between scientific and ethical theories with respect to their testability, explanatory potential and the causal relevance of entities they postulate. Critics of the ethical theories often claim that ethical theories are in fundamental contrast to scientific theories as they cannot be tested by empirical methods. While scientific facts are objective and open to empirical investigation, moral facts are mere expressions of subjective attitudes towards objective facts, and thus fall out of the scope of legitimate, scientific knowledge. We believe that this picture of such a deep contrast between science and ethics is based on a naïve conception of both types of theories. If we accept a more sophisticated view of scientific activity, interesting analogies begin to turn up. This paper attempts to assess some of the analogies.

Keywords

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CAUSAL RELEVANCE; EFFICACY; MANIPULATION; ETHICS; SCIENCE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: suppl. 1
• Pages: 5 – 23

Contributors

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Radim Bělohrad

• Katedra filozofie, Filozofická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

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Zdenka Jastrzebmská