The Is-Ought Question: A Collection of Papers on the Central Problem in Moral Philosophy

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