Appreciation and criticism of Reichenbach's meta-ethics

Achilles' heel of the system?

Cynthia Schuster

pp. 721-730

in: Wesley C. Salmon (ed), Hans Reichenbach, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

Non-cognitivism in ethics is strictly entailed by Reichenbach's epistemology. Having settled for a functional conception of knowledge, with prediction as the one and only function or purpose of knowledge, Reichenbach was committed to ethical non-cognitivism, i.e. to the view that there is no normative or prescriptive knowledge, that there are no moral truths, that moral judgements are neither true nor false.

Cited authors

Reichenbach Hans