On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Steven Peterson wrote: > Hi Marsha, > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> 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 ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
