Abstract

I want to address the four central questions of moral epistemology: Can we know some ethical judgments to be true? If so, how? Do we know some ethical judgments to be true? If so, which ones? ;Question is answerable affirmatively. Per question , we can know ethical judgments to be true if and only if we can know empirical judgments to be true. Question is answerable affirmatively. It is probable that human beings have ethical knowledge--in a way highly analogous to how persons have knowledge of certain epistemically well-grounded empirical judgments. Per question , known ethical beliefs are apt to be those which are most intuitively compelling after all the relevant empirical information is considered reflectively, carefully, and impartially