Hume on Is and Ought

by C. Pigden (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230205208
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/21/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

ANNETTE C. BAIER lives in her native New Zealand. Before retiring she taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Auckland, Sydney and Pittsburgh ADRIAN HEATHCOTE teaches philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia NORVA Y. S. LO is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia STEPHEN MAITZEN is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada EDWIN MARES is Professor of philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ALAN MUSGRAVE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand ARTHUR PRIOR (1914-1969) was one of the greatest logicians (and most interesting philosophers) of the Twentieth Century GREG RESTALL teaches Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia WADE L. ROBISON is Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA GILLIAN RUSSELL is Assistant Professor at Washington University in St Louis, USA HÅKAN SALWÉN teaches philosophy at Skholm University, Sweden GERHARD SCHURZ is Head of the Philosophy Department, University of Duesseldorf, Germany J.M SHORTER taught at Aberdeen, and at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, first as a Lecturer and then as Professor (in succession to Arthur Prior). He lives in retirement at Oxford. PETER B. M. VRANAS is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; C.Pigden The Autonomy of Ethics; A.N. Prior Professor Prior and the Autonomy of Ethics; J.M.Shorter Hume's Own 'Ought' Conclusions; A.C.Baier Much Obliged; W.Robison Letter From A Gentleman in Dunedin to a Lady in the Country; A Gentleman Hume's Master Argument; A.Heathcote Heathcote's Hume; A.Musgrave On Heathcote Against Hume's Law; N.Y.S. Lo Comments on 'Hume's Master Argument'; C.Pigden Comments on 'Hume's Master Argument'; G.Schurz Reply to Criticisms; A.Heathcote In Defence of Hume's Law; G.Russell The Significance of Hume's Law; H.Salwén Snare's Puzzle/ Hume's Purpose: Non-Cogntivism and What Hume Was Really Up To With No-Ought-From-Is; C.Pigden Comments on Salwén And Pigden; N.Y.S.Lo Reply to Lo; C.Pigden Nontrivial Versions of Hume's Is-Ought Thesis; G.Schurz On The Triviality of Hume's Law: Reply to Gerhard Schurz; C.Pigden Reply to Pigden; G.Schurz Barriers to Implication; G.Restall & G.Russell Comments on 'Barriers to Implication'; P.Vranas Comments on Restall, Russell and Vranas; G.Schurz Supervenience and the Autonomy of Ethics: Yet another Way in Which Relevant Logic is Superior to Classical Logic; E.W.Mares Moral Conclusions from Nonmoral Premises; S.Maitzen Comments on 'Moral Conclusions from Nonmoral Premises'; G.Schurz Comments on 'Moral Conclusions from Nonmoral Premises'; C.Pigden Reply to Pigden and Schurz; S.Maitzen Consolidated Bibliography Index