Episode 32, Meta-Ethics (Part I - Naturalism)

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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🗓️ 21 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! (www.patreon.com/panpsycast) This episode is proudly sponsored by The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast. For information, please visit www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, semantic, epistemological and psychological presuppositions of moral thought. It investigates our ethical language, in search of the meaning that lies behind it. Meta-ethics is concerned with are a broad range of puzzles, for example: What do we mean we make moral claims? Do our preferences or feelings motivate moral assertions? Or are we stating facts when we make moral claims? Is morality more a matter of taste than truth - and if it is a matter of truth, how do we learn about the moral facts? This episode we’ll be introducing you to three meta-ethical views. In Part I, we’ll be discussing naturalism, in Part II, we’ll be looking at intuitionism, in Part III, we’re going to dive into emotivism, and finally, in Part IV, we’ll be engaging in some further analysis and discussion.

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0:00.0	Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, semantic, epistemological and psychological presuppositions of moral thought.
0:15.0	It investigates our ethical language in search of the meaning that lies behind it.
0:20.0	Metaethics is concerned with a broad range of puzzles.
0:23.6	For example, what do we mean when we make moral claims?
0:26.6	Are moral claims motivated by our preferences or feelings?
0:29.6	Or are we stating facts when we make moral claims?
0:33.6	Is morality more a matter of taste than truth?
0:36.6	And if it is a matter of truth, how do we learn about the moral facts?
0:40.3	This episode will be introducing you to three meta-ethical views.
0:46.3	In part one, we'll be dissecting naturalism.
0:48.3	In part two, we'll be looking at intuitionism.
0:51.3	In part three, we're going to dive into emotivism. And finally, in part
0:55.1	four, we'll be engaging in some further analysis and discussion.
1:02.1	Hello, and welcome to episode 32 of the Pansai cast. I'm Jack Symes, and I'm joined once
1:08.6	again by the emotive Mr Andrew Horton.
1:11.9	Boo.
1:12.8	The man who invented right and wrong, Mr. Oli-Mali.
1:16.0	Yay!
1:17.0	And the intuitionist Miss Phoebe Lights.
1:19.5	Hi, it's good to be here.
1:23.2	It's almost as if you were prompted to say that way.
1:27.8	Right, Phoebe, to introduce you to the audience, we've got six questions for you, okay?
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