@inbook{c025537c69e1406ab905317dc928bf66,
title = "Producing a Justification: Waismann on Ethics and Science",
abstract = "Constantine Sandis takes on a very first evaluation of Waismann{\textquoteright}s essay and shows that Waismann{\textquoteright}s discussion of the scientific constrains on ethics is very much not anti-scientistic. Unlike Wittgenstein, Waismann does not dismiss morality as nonsense. Sandis associates Waismann{\textquoteright}s view with expressivism, similar to the emotivism defended by his contemporary C.L. Stevenson, and points out a shared motivation with Derek Parfit{\textquoteright}s more recent On What Matters. In an existentialist fashion Waismann invokes one{\textquoteright}s freedom and responsibility in opting for different ethical systems, once one stops asking for moral truth and starts to choose and decide. In a detailed criticism of Waismann{\textquoteright}s essay Sandis asks what our choosing and deciding could be based on if not in turn a normative discourse based on reasons.",
author = "Constantine Sandis",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2019 The Author(s).",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-25008-9_3",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-25007-2",
series = " History of Analytic Philosophy",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "47--66",
editor = "Shapiro, {Stewart } and Makovec, {Dejan }",
booktitle = "Friedrich Waismann",
}