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1 online resource |
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Routledge library editions. Ethics ; volume 28 |
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Routledge library editions. Ethics ; v. 28
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I The Sources of the Fact/Value Distinction -- 1 Hume -- 2 Moore -- 3 Logical positivism and its polemical heyday -- 4 Nowell-Smith's Ethics and language analysis -- 5 Winch's ethical relativism -- 6 Gallie's 'essentially contested concepts' -- 7 The structuring of the Naturalistic Fallacy by the logical demands of positivism -- 8 The rejection of non-cognitivism and the rise of moral realism -- 9 Hare's later writings |
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II The Consequences of Strict Implication -- 1 Symmetry between moral 'ought' (A1), non-moral 'ought' (A2) and ordinary factual 'is' (A3) statements -- 2 The options open to the supporter of the Naturalistic Fallacy in the face of the overkill -- 3 Distinction between (sE) and (fE), that is, serious and flippant evidence -- 4 Hare's strategy and the positivist Deductive-Nomological model of explanation -- 5 The Deductive-Nomological model modified to become the Deducibility-Commitment model and applied to the law -- 6 The Deducibility-Commitment model leads to the 'command theory of knowledge' |
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7 Two senses of authority: (i) power (political authority) -- (ii) knowledge (epistemological authority) -- III The Notion of Epistemic Implication -- 1 Shift from strict implication to the tentative thesis '(A) requires (sE)' -- 2 The notion of relevance: (i) referential -- (ii) causal -- 3 Causal connections and partial meaning links between (A1), (A2) and (A3) -- assertions and (E1), (E2) and (E3) -- evidence -- 4 The condition of causal independence -- 5 Epistemic implication and the attempt to avoid the paradoxes of relevance involved in material implication and strict implication |
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6 The logic of verification, falsification and fallibilism -- 7 ' "Ought" epistemically implies "can" ' -- 8 Classification and distinction between class and taxon -- 9 Distinction between epistemic implication and epistemic or doxastic logic -- 10 Chisholm's 'critical cognitivism' -- 11 Truth/validity -- the argumentative and the descriptive uses of language -- 12 Distinction between the ontological status of values/norms and their epistemological status -- IV Application and Testing of Epistemic Implication -- 1 False (but causally relevant) evidence defeats assertion |
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2 Causally irrelevant (even if true) evidence leads to non-sequitur and therefore renders the argument invalid -- 3 True and causally relevant evidence may still be ruled out by the condition of causal independence -- 4 Testing the thesis via the practical syllogism -- 5 Applying epistemic implication to Mackie's arguments on abortion -- 6 Moral philosophy and meta-ethics -- 7 Do transcendent moral theories fail to satisfy the conditions for epistemic implication? -- 8 The logic and content of discourse -- 9 Checks or tests of adequacy -- 10 Unending moral conflicts and controversies |
| Summary |
Originally published in 1985, this book establishes that moral discourse is critical, rational and objective and challenges the ideology of value irrationalism behind contemporary liberalism. The book discusses the origins of the fact/value distinction, and calls into question the thesis that logical derivability or strict implication is the only legitimate relationship between propositions. A straightforward philosophical treatment of the subject, in the analytical tradition, it will be especially useful for undergraduate students |
| Notes |
"First published in 1985 by Routledge & Kegan Paul." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Keekok Lee |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics -- Philosophy
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Ethics
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Ethics -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000066630 |
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1000066630 |
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9781003044673 |
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1003044670 |
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9781000066616 |
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1000066614 |
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9781000066623 |
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1000066622 |
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