Fabino asked:

"Our technologies establish the truth of many of our scientific laws." is there any comparable means
of establishing moral rules and norms?

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Well, you're asking thequestion here... can we "naturalize" ethics? Indeed. Well, there's no generally
agreed-on answer to this question at this point. I favor the affirmative... but there are many positions
on this.

For pro-naturalizing, you might look at:

Clark, A. "Connectionism, Moral Cognition, and Collaborative Problem Solving." edited by L. May, M.
Friedman and A. Clark, 109-28. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998.

Edgerton, R. B. Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony.1st ed. New York: The
Free Press, 1992.

Harrison, L.E., and S.P. Huntington, eds. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress.New
York, NY: Basic Books, 2000.

Johnson, M. "Imagination in Moral Judgment." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research46, no.
2 (1985): 265-80.

Johnson, M. Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics.1st ed. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1993.

May, L., M. Friedman, and A. Eds. Clark. Mind and Morals: Essays on Cognitive Science and Ethics.
2nd ed. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.

For anti-naturalizing:

Annis, D. B. "A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification." American Philosophical Quarterly15,
no. 3 (1978): 213-19.

Henderson, D. K. "Epistemic Competence and Contextualist Epistemology: Why Contextualism Is
Not Just the Poor Person's Coherentism." The Journal of Philosophy91, no. 12 (1994): 627-49.

MacIntyre, A. After Virtue.2nd ed. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.

MacIntyre, A. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?1st ed. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1988.

Rawls, J. A Theory of Justice.21st ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

For general reading:

Williams, B. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Anscombe, G. E. M. "Modern Moral Philosophy." Philosophy33, no. 124 (1958): 1-28.

Apostle, H. G. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.2nd ed. Grinnell, IA: The Peripatetic Press, 1984.

Hare, R. M. "Foundationalism and Coherentism in Ethics." edited by W. Sinnott-Armstrong and M.
Timmons, 190-99. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kant, I. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals.Translated by L.W.T. Beck. New York, NY:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1959.

Sinnott-Armstrong, W., and M. Timmons.Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology.
1st ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Sommers, C., and F. Sommers. Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life; Introductory Readings in Ethics.4th
ed. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1985.

Urmson, J. O. Aristotle's Ethics.11th ed. Malden: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1998.

This is just a kind of very limited basic set of readings on this issue. To really know it well, you need
several years of reading.

Steven Ravett Brown