Trends in Logic
Heinrich Wansing · Jacek Malinowski · Benedikt Löwe · Erich Peter Klement · Francesco Paoli · Janusz Czelakowski · Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara · Peter Schroeder-Heister · Roberto Giuntini · Thomas Piecha · Thoralf Räsch · Vincent F. Hendricks
Latest release: November 17, 2023
Logic · History & Philosophy · Philosophy
Series
60
Books
About this ebook series
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.
