But aren’t those empirical difficulties, not fundamental ones? Don’t you think there’s a fact of the matter that will be discovered if we keep gaining more and more knowledge? Empirical problems can’t bring down an ethical theory, but if you can show that there exists a fundamental weighting problem, then that would be valid criticism.
But aren’t those empirical difficulties, not fundamental ones?
What sort of empirical fact would you discover that would resolve that? A detector for happiness radiation? The scenario in that paper is pretty well specified.
But aren’t those empirical difficulties, not fundamental ones? Don’t you think there’s a fact of the matter that will be discovered if we keep gaining more and more knowledge? Empirical problems can’t bring down an ethical theory, but if you can show that there exists a fundamental weighting problem, then that would be valid criticism.
What sort of empirical fact would you discover that would resolve that? A detector for happiness radiation? The scenario in that paper is pretty well specified.