PHIL 201 Lecture 4: PHIL 201 Lec April 6
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Final in class monday 10% multiple choice covering the entire course. Science isn"t about how universe ought to be, it is about how the universe is: mackie: if values existed, they would be very strange, people believe we evolved to behave certain ways. "you ought not to commit genocide: by giving this assumption up, there is no straightforwardly true way that genocide is wrong (or torture ) Facts and values: difference between the world science describes and the world of values: what is the case doesn"t determine what ought to be the case, eg. It doesn"t make any sense for us to say that ! Values do exist, it"s fine to say "ought to be this way" The more we know about human biology, the better will we be able to treat disease. If the human genome is mapped, that will make it possible to determine an individual"s genetic makeup.