A Level: AQA • Edexcel • OCR • WJEC

A brief introduction to cognitivism, including what it is, how it works, and why it's important. This lesson locates cognitivism as a meta-ethical belief or position about moral semantics and explains its relationship to other beliefs or positions. Additionally, it covers the differences between realism and anti-realism, how cognitivism asserts ethical statements are meaningful (and either true or false), and why cognitivism is so important to understanding ethics.