The relevance of metaethics to ethics
In: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
In: Stockholm studies in philosophy 5
In: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
In: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
In: Stockholm studies in philosophy 5
In: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 440-461
ISSN: 0092-5853
During the past three decades, political theory in political science has become increasingly dependent on metatheoretical arguments in formal academic philosophy & other fields. In terms of both its content & the definition of its enterprise, historical, empirical, & normative theory has in many respects become a sublimate of the literature of philosophical methodology, metaethics, & other disciplines. Philosophical conceptions of theory, & controversies about such conceptions, have tended to displace substantive theory & to obscure the fact that theory is not so much a distinct element in, or product of, scientific practice as an analytically distinguishable dimension of the claims involved in that practice. The roots of this problem lie not only in developments in the discipline since the 1950s, but in issues that extend back to the origins of the field & that attend the beginnings of modern social science & early relationships between philosophy & empirical science. 27 References. HA.