Habermas's Moral Cognitivism and the Frege‐Geach Challenge

European Journal of Philosophy 13 (3):319-344 (2005)
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This is a critical discussion of Habermas's conception of moral cognitivism. I explain how it fits in with his meta-ethical anti-realism. I place Habermas's Discourse Ethics in the broad field of analytic meta-ethics. I also look at the question of whether the Frege-Geach problem applies to Habermas's Discourse Ethics, and if so, how he should best reply.

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