The is-ought gap and the substitution criterion

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Chen, Melvin
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2022
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Philosophy; Is-Ought; Substitution Criterion
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160057
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Ever since its formulation by Hume, the idea of an inferential barrier between non-ethical (“is”) propositions and ethical (“ought”) propositions (also known as Hume’s is-ought thesis) has received much philosophical attention. Prior’s Paradox appears to demonstrate that the ban on “is”-“ought” infe...