[MD] The Moral Landscape

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Marsha,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> When you state "Our claims about morality can have truth-value
> and be as objective as our scientific claims."  are you talking
> about some definition of scientific objectivism?

I'm promoting pragmatic anti-skepticism. I'm saying that we not not be
any more skeptical about moral truth than we are about scientific
truth. Anyone objecting to moral truth as not resting on firm
foundations similar to those of scientific claims can be shown that
moral claims in fact do not suffer by comparison to scientific ones in
terms of epistemic grounding. All the criticisms typically made for
the possibility of moral knowledge can be shown to apply equally to
scientific knowledge that we are not skeptical about.