Name: the is-ought problem
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Author: schurz
ISBN: 9780792344100

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Publisher

Springer

Author

schurz

Language

English

Pages

344

ISBN

0792344103

ISBN13

9780792344100

Synopsis "the is-ought problem"

can ought be derived from is? this book presents an investigation of this time-honored problem by means of alethic-deontic predicate logic. new in this study is the leitmotif of relevance: is-ought inferences indeed exist, but they are all irrelevant in a precise logical sense. new proof techniques establish this result for very broad classes of logics. a profound philosophical analysis of is-ought bridge principles supplements the logical study. the final results imply incisive limitations for the justifiability of ethics as opposed to empirical science.