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The Is-Ought Problem

An Investigation in Philosophical Logic

Authors:

  1. Gerhard Schurz

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

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Part of the book series: Trends in Logic (TREN, volume 1)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  3. The Logical Background: a.d.1-Logics

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 33-67

  5. The General Hume Thesis GH

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 85-103

  6. The Special Hume Thesis SH

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 104-127

  9. Generalizations

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 160-174

  10. Some Applications to Ethical Arguments

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 175-182

  11. The Problems of Identity and Existence

    • Gerhard Schurz
    Pages 183-232

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 286-332
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About this book

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.
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`... anyone interested in deontic logic should benefit from the insights of this book. ... the work is clearly written and excellently edited.'
History and Philosophy of Logic, 19 (1998)
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Gerhard Schurz

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Is-Ought Problem

  • Book Subtitle: An Investigation in Philosophical Logic

  • Authors: Gerhard Schurz

  • Series Title: Trends in Logic

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3375-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4410-0Published: 28 February 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4795-3Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3375-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-6126

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-7313

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 332

  • Topics: Logic, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Science

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