As a Matter of Fact: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics

• Autores: John M. Doris, Stephen P. Stich
• Localización: The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy / Frank Jackson (ed. lit.), Michael Smith (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 9780191577109, págs. 114-152
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article seeks to convince the reader that the empirical literature is often deeply relevant to important debates, and it is therefore intellectually irresponsible to ignore them. Sometimes empirical findings seem to contradict what particular disputing parties assert or presuppose, while in other cases, they appear to reconfigure the philosophical topography, revealing that certain lines of argument must traverse empirically difficult terrain. Often, philosophers who follow these challenging routes will be forced to make additional empirical conjectures, and these conjectures, in their turn, must be subject to empirical scrutiny. The upshot is that an intellectually responsible philosophical ethics is one that continuously engages the relevant empirical literature.