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Can OUGHT be derived from IS? This book presents a systematic investigation of this time-honored philosophical problem by means of modern alethic-deontic predicate logic. Two comprehensive introductory chapters into the philosophical and logical foundations make the text understandable also for non-logicians ethicists, social scientists and students of philosophy. New in this study are two leitmotifs: relevance and metalogical generality.
It turns out that is-ought inferences indeed exist, but they are all irrelevant in a precise logical sense. New proof techniques allow to establish this result for very broad classes of logics. A profound philosophical investigation of the question of analytical or strongly intersubjective is-ought bridge principles supplements the logical study. The final results imply incisive limitations for the justifiability of ethics as opposed to empirical science.
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Deontic logic, Inference, Logic, Hume, david, 1711-1776People
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The is-ought problem: an investigation in philosophical logic
1997, Kluwer Academic
in English
0792344103 9780792344100
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332).
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