Abstract

Some Peirceans have defended a form of moral cognitivism according to which “moral judgments fall within the scope of truth, knowledge, and inquiry.”1 The idea is that our moral beliefs can be either true or false and this can be discovered through inquiry. There have been more than a few thinkers who have placed Charles S. Peirce within this camp and have said that his theories of truth and inquiry provide us with a framework within which we can understand moral judgments. If, through inquiry, we find reasons for thinking that our moral judgments are false, then we should at the very least be willing to subject those moral judgments to doubt, which would then make us more hesitant to operate based on those moral..