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On the Meaning of ‘Ought’1
I begin here in §1 with some prima facie linguistic difficulties had by two prominent metaethical accounts of the meaning of normative terms – basically the accounts implicit in realism and expressivism – when these are applied in a straightforward albeit naïve way to the word ‘ought’. In §2, I explain what I take to be the standard framework in theoretical semantics for accounting for the sema...
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Moral philosophy in the English-speaking world has been dominated during the present century by the controversy concerning the logical relationship between 'is' and 'ought'. These terms are, of course, to be understood in the present context as shorthand labels. By 'is' is meant any non-moral assertion, that is to say, any utterance which purports to be either true or false and which does not e...
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Human beings are confronted by how things, including themselves, work and how they ought to work. Human beings are also confronted, relatedly, by movement and language. The purpose of this note is to suggest an objective physical base within which these philosophic, psychological, and physiological properties of complex systems can be anchored.
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A.N. Prior’s (1960) famous counterexamples to ethical autonomy involve cases where nonnormative premises entail a normative conclusion. Consider, for example, a normative claim N and a non-normative claim M. If N v M is non-normative, then the non-normative ~M & (N v M) entails the normative N. If the disjunction is normative, then it is entailed by the non-normative M. The entailments are impe...
متن کاملDoes ought imply can?
Most philosophers believe that a person can have an obligation only insofar as she is able to fulfil it, a principle generally referred to as "Ought Implies Can". Arguably, this principle reflects something basic about the ordinary concept of obligation. However, in a paper published recently in this journal, Wesley Buckwalter and John Turri presented evidence for the conclusion that ordinary p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0279-0750,1468-0114
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01354.x