Ethical Theories
... Isn’t ethics different from science because ethics lacks agreement, has no way to resolve disputes, and is not objective? No: • There are wide areas of ethical agreement • Ethical disputes are resolved through reason • In contrast to science, ethical values are “objective” not because they are base ...
... Isn’t ethics different from science because ethics lacks agreement, has no way to resolve disputes, and is not objective? No: • There are wide areas of ethical agreement • Ethical disputes are resolved through reason • In contrast to science, ethical values are “objective” not because they are base ...
King’s College London
... Explain and assess Mackie’s arguments for the view that moral judgements involve error. ...
... Explain and assess Mackie’s arguments for the view that moral judgements involve error. ...
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel (/ˈneɪɡəl/; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics.Nagel is well known for his critique of reductionist accounts of the mind, particularly in his essay ""What Is it Like to Be a Bat?"" (1974), and for his contributions to deontological and liberal moral and political theory in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) and subsequent writings. Continuing his critique of reductionism, he is the author of Mind and Cosmos (2012), in which he argues against a reductionist view, and specifically the neo-Darwinian view, of the emergence of consciousness.