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June 4, 2008

Is & Ought and Legal Theory

There is a nice (but introductory) discussion of the Is-Ought distinction at Prawfs, with contributions from Jeff Lipshaw & Rick Hills.  For a slightly deeper discussion, see Legal Theory Lexicon 014: Fact and Value.  And here are four relevant entries from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Rachel Cohon, Hume’s Moral Philosphy, Richard Joyce, Moral Anti-Realism, Michael Ridge, Moral Non-Naturalism, & Mark van Roojen, Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism.


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