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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Morality of Mental State

Vickin Stein: Emotions and your state of mind are empirically unverifiable. If you recast that in a purely descriptive way, there are groups of actions that people call moral. And because there's this general consensus on what actions people consider moral, so in other words, we're just talking about what people's opinions are. We're not saying what the truth of the matter is.

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