It Ought To Be Therefore It Is: On Fallaciousness of So-Called Moralistic Fallacy

ONDRÁČEK, Tomáš and Iva SVAČINOVÁ. It Ought To Be Therefore It Is: On Fallaciousness of So-Called Moralistic Fallacy. In 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference (ECA 2017), Fribourg, Švýcarsko, 20-23 June 2017. 2017.

Basic information

• Original name: It Ought To Be Therefore It Is: On Fallaciousness of So-Called Moralistic Fallacy
• Authors: ONDRÁČEK, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Iva SVAČINOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference (ECA 2017), Fribourg, Švýcarsko, 20-23 June 2017, 2017.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/17:00097098
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: argumentation theory; moralistic fallacy; ought-propositions; philosophy of science; pragma-dialectical theory; PVF theory
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

The problem of moralistic fallacy, crossing the gap from ought-propositions to is-propositions, is considered with regard to four questions: Should we consider all ought-propositions (or is-propositions) in same manner? Is the ought-is move an inference or is it just a case of some practical assumption? Is this move fallacious in any discussion? To address these questions we use the pragma-dialectical theory, where ought-is relation argumentatively as relation between propositions in reason and standpoint.

Links

• MUNI/A/0837/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Výzvy současné filozofie

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A