The Is/ought Question: A Collection Of Papers On The Central Problem In Moral Philosophy (controversies In Philosophy, 1)

Front Matter....Pages i-10 Editor’s Introduction: The ‘is-ought’ problem....Pages 11-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Hume on ‘is’ and ‘ought’....Pages 35-50 Hume on ‘is’ and ‘ought’: A reply to Mr MacIntyre....Pages 51-58 On the interpretation of Hume....Pages 59-63 A reply to Professor Flew....Pages 64-69 Front Matter....Pages 70-72 The ‘is-ought’: An unnecessary dualism....Pages 73-80 Zimmerman’s ‘is-is’: A schizophrenic monism....Pages 81-81 A note on the ‘is-ought’ barrier....Pages 83-91 Front Matter....Pages 92-94 The gap between ‘is’ and ‘should’....Pages 95-95 The possibilities of moral advice....Pages 97-97 How to derive ‘ought’ from ‘is’....Pages 99-113 On not deriving ‘ought’ from ‘is’....Pages 114-119 The promising game....Pages 120-134 On deriving ‘ought’ from ‘is’....Pages 135-143 How not to derive ‘ought’ from ‘is’....Pages 144-156 The ‘is-ought’ controversy....Pages 157-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-167 Modern moral philosophy....Pages 168-172 Moral beliefs....Pages 173-173 Front Matter....Pages 175-195 Goodness and choice....Pages 196-213 On morality’s having a point....Pages 173-173 Descriptivism....Pages 214-227 Back Matter....Pages 228-239 ....Pages 240-258