Abstract

LARIGUET, Guillermo. Ethics, experimental turn, and weak naturalism. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.2, pp.85-98. ISSN 1851-9490.

In this paper I show the existence of an "experimental turn" in ethics belonging to a trend of general philosophy towards experimentation. I specify the connection between this turn and a type of naturalism that I will name "weak". In this work I reflect on how this experimental turn, shaped as a type of some sort of naturalism, has a double impact on ethics as a philosophical discipline. Actually, I examine how the type of naturalism that underlies experimentalism, affects the nature of the conceptual analysis and the normative character of ethics.

Keywords : Experimentalism; Conceptual analysis; Naturalism; Normativism; Rationality.

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