Hume on Is and Ought
Title | Hume on Is and Ought PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Pigden |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2010-07-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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This collection of essays showcases recent work on Hume and the Is/Ought question. There are four distinct attempts to redefine and prove Hume's No-Ought-From-Is thesis in such a way as to evade the famous counterexamples of A.N. Prior. The rival approaches are explained and discussed together with their implications for meta-ethical theory.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Title | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals PDF eBook |
Author | David Hume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
Of the passions
Title | Of the passions PDF eBook |
Author | David Hume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1826 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Is-ought Question
Title | Is-ought Question PDF eBook |
Author | W.Donald Hudson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 1969-10-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1349153362 |
Custom and Reason in Hume
Title | Custom and Reason in Hume PDF eBook |
Author | Henry E. Allison |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2010-09-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191615528 |
Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding in which reason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, directed not against first-order beliefs, but against philosophical attempts to ground these beliefs in the "space of reasons." On the other hand, Allison provides a critique of these tenets from a Kantian perspective. This involves a comparison of the two thinkers on a range of issues, including space and time, causation, existence, induction, and the self. In each case, the issue is seen to turn on a contrast between their underlying models of cognition. Hume is committed to a version of the perceptual model, according to which the paradigm of knowledge is a seeing with the "mind's eye" of the relation between mental contents. By contrast, Kant appeals to a discursive model in which the fundamental cognitive act is judgment, understood as the application of concepts to sensory data, Whereas regarded from the first point of view, Hume's account is deemed a major philosophical achievement, seen from the second it suffers from a failure to develop an adequate account of concepts and judgment.
Reflecting Subjects
Title | Reflecting Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Anne Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198729529 |
Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.
The Is-Ought Problem
Title | The Is-Ought Problem PDF eBook |
Author | G. Schurz |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401733759 |
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.