Morality Before Metaphysics | Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, Joanna Kavenna
Philosophy For Our Times
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Science and Morality, I'm Not Sure It Looks Like It Used to Be
A century ago, in the 19 twenties, philosophers argued for a strict distinction between facts and values. But doesn't that look rather impossible now? Er, a hundred years later, i i not sure it looks sir different from it looked then. Sojana: We've got to be careful er. Obviously, a values in the widest sense, including, say, political values,. And science has to go where the money goes. If nobody is prepared to fund a science which hopes to look into something or another, then the science can't get done. You have theory, then you create an experiment, and you have people doing the experiment who are humans with a subjective view. I think
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