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Model Theory, Hume's Dictum, and the Priority of Ethical Theory
2017
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
It is regrettably common for theorists to attempt to characterize the Humean dictum that one can't get an 'ought' from an 'is' just in broadly logical terms. We here address an important new class of such approaches which appeal to model-theoretic machinery. Our complaint about these recent attempts is that they interfere with substantive debates about the nature of the ethical. This problem, developed in detail for Daniel Singer's and Gillian Russell and Greg Restall's accounts of Hume's
doi:10.3998/ergo.12405314.0004.014
fatcat:nd7cw55xlrg2nhnkpqkzmoqvvq