Abstract
One of the most common grounds for scepticism about ethical objectivity is the apparently different ways in which ethical and scientific claims are responsive to evidence and criticism. The comparative obscurity of notions like ‘ethical proof, ‘ethical experiment’, ‘ethical observation’, or even ‘ethical knowledge’ is often put forward as grounds for thinking that ethical claims are not rationally responsive to the world in the way that standard claims in at least the natural sciences are. Bernard Williams is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers associated with this line of thought (Williams 1978; 1981; 1985; 1995).KeywordsEthical PerspectiveScientific ThoughtEthical ThoughtScientific ClaimEthical ObjectivityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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