Abstract. Martin Eger's comparison of controversies in science and morals is extended to a consideration of the nature of “rationality” in each. Both theoretical science and moral philosophy are held to be relativist in social and historical terms, but science also has definitive non‐relativist pragmatic criteria of truth. The problem for moral philosophy is to delineate its own appropriate types of social criteria of validity.
rationality, science, morals
Hesse, M., (1988) ““RATIONALITY” IN SCIENCE AND MORALS”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 23(3), 327–332. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00636.x
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