10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUME'S LAW»
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Hume's law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Natural
Law and Practical Rationality
... to deduce judgments of the former sort from judgments of the latter sort alone.
Now, while the advocate of derivationism is obviously committed to denying that '
Hume's law' is a principle of logic, it is up to the derivationist to show how ...
2
An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics: A Guide to Laws and ...
Hume's law l2l the consumer's optimization problem and satisfies the axioms of
consumer's choice. MA COVADONGA DE LA IGLESIA VlLLASOL Bibliography
Hotelling H. (l932). 'Edgworth's taxation paradox and the nature of demand and ...
Julio Segura, Carlos Rodríguez Braun, 2004
3
Hume’s Reflection on Religion
The difference between Broad and Flew is that the latter believes that Hume's law
of nature could be reformulated in such a way as to exclude in principle the
possibility of miraculous events. I do not know whether this is really feasible
under ...
Miguel A. Badía Cabrera, 2001
But, like thesis 3 which it restates, Hume's Law leaves open the possibility that
there should be objectively prescriptive moral truths or valid principles, some of
which are discovered by a moral sense or by a faculty of moral intuition. This is
the ...
5
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of ...
... well: in deriving morality (an “ought”) from people's sentiments (an “is”), Hume
combines the empirical with the normative, the descriptive with the prescriptive.
15 This move would seem to contradict what has become known as “Hume's law,
” ...
Dennis C. Rasmussen, 2013
6
The Project of Positivism in International
Law
As a final point I shall touch upon what is known as 'Hume's law',30 the classical
statement of which is that an 'ought' cannot be derived from an 'is'. In every
previous system of morality, Hume explained, the authors usually established.
Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, 2013
We've already mentioned the first two of these four “laws”:2 Hare's Law Kant's
Law Hume's Law Poincaré◊s Law : : : : An “ought” entails the corresponding
imperative. “Ought” implies “can.” You can't deduce an “ought” from an “is.” You
can't ...
8
Critical Realism: Essential Readings
It need not be denied by the advocate of Hume's law that causal relations exist
between factual and evaluative statements such that they motivate, predispose or
raasally inflaenre each other, but it is asserted to be the case that facts do not ...
Margaret Archer, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, 2013
Hume's law has been argued, at least in the moral context, by Amartya Sen.34
Sen's point is that the principle of formal justice (he uses the term "
universalizability") has the following implication: if (1) x and y are empirically
indistinguishable, ...
Kenneth D. Cooper-Stephenson, Elaine Gibson, 1993
10
Economic Theory in Retrospect
Mill's version of Hume's Law is much broader than that of any previous author. He
shows that an inflow of gold lowers interest rates even as it raises prices (see
also chapter 24, section 4). As the interest rate falls, short-term capital will flow ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUME'S LAW»
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Bloody Moralism
Hume's Law stands guard. To talk about what we ought to do is always, even implicitly, to advance a specific version of the good, the true and ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
David Hume Against The New Atheism
... into the Is-Ought Problem, also known as Hume's Law. Hume points out that is-statements are categorically different from ought-statements, ... «Patheos, Jan 15»
You Ought to Have A Look: Examples of Real-world Realities vs …
Any such judgment also contradicts Hume's Law and, perhaps worse, is grounded in a fallacious appeal to nature understood in a very slanted ... «Cato Institute, Jan 15»
Tenure's Fourth Rail
While other tenure criteria – research, teaching and service -- are “is” questions, she said, recalling Hume's law, collegiality is an “ought” ... «Inside Higher Ed, Jun 13»
Ought and Is
Others call it 'Hume's Law', the source of which I have not been able to trace, although it does seem to be both more recent and less useful, ... «First Things, Jan 13»
Germain, Baudrillard and Virilio on technology
... of the ought of human behaviour somehow being determined by what is (besides the obvious Hume's Law dilemma) is which is do we pick? «Thought Leader, Aug 11»
