Thick Ethical Concepts Posed a Challenge to 'No Ought From Is'
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 7:22 am
Here are the Contents from the above article;Thick Ethical Concepts
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thic ... -concepts/
2.1 The Is-Ought Gap and the Fact-Value Distinction
It is common to think that the intuitive contrast between is and ought marks an important gap between distinct domains, and sometimes this gap is identified as a distinction between “facts” and “values”.
Thick concepts may be thought to challenge such dichotomies between facts and values (Murdoch 1970; Williams 1985: 140–5; Dancy 1995; Putnam 2002: 34–45).
- 1. What Are Thick Concepts? Background and Preliminaries
2. Do Thick Concepts Have Distinctive Significance?- 2.1 The Is-Ought Gap and the Fact-Value Distinction
2.2 The “Anti-Disentangling” Argument
2.3 Reflection, Knowledge, and Priority
- 3.1 Separabilist Views
3.2 Inseparabilist Views
- 4.1 The Semantic View
4.2 Pragmatic Views
- 5.1 Thick and Thin Differ in Kind
5.2 Thick and Thin Differ in Degree
- 2.1 The Is-Ought Gap and the Fact-Value Distinction
This OP's point together with other Moral Facts arguments will expose their No-Moral-Fact theory* as false.
* in addition to the deniers' claim 'Fact Cannot be Evaluative' and NOFI [No Ought From Is]
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