[MD] The Moral Landscape

[MarshaV]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Steven Peterson wrote:

> 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.

Good one!   I'm very skeptical about scientific truths.  Unless, of course, 
you mean truth in a conventional, relative sense.  



> 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.

Sorry to interrupt.  I caught the 'scientific objectivism' the other day, 
but thought I'd wait to see what others would say.  


Marsha 




 
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