PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vienna Circle, Normal Science, Normative Ethics
10 Jun 2020
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Scientific research, being descriptive, can never give you grounds for or justify normative claims: can inform normative claims, but nothing more, normative justification requires philosophical/ethical theory. Interdisciplinary: e. g. our judicial system hinges on the notions of free will and accountability given certain evidence a person can be held accountable for certain crime. But being held accountable cannot be justified by that evidence; that"s a normative choice/convention. So, science can inform normative ethics, but not justify it: that requires ethical/philosophical argumentation, hence, critical theory combines empirical social enquire and normative philosophical argumentation. Practical ability in employing frameworks to cross perspective and initiate processes of reflection in arts of social criticism: this is vague; how to asses these features? by which criteria, lesson: beware of your moral presuppositions and assumptions. Subject-object distinction is crucial to humanities research because: allowed distinguishing man and its products and actions form the natural and supernatural.
