Wishful Thinking in Moral Theorizing: Comment on Enoch
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| Publication date |
2011
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| Journal |
Utilitas
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| Volume | Issue number |
23 | 4
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| Pages (from-to) |
447-450
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
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| Abstract |
David Enoch recently defended the idea that there are valid inferences of the form ‘it would be good if p, therefore, p’. I argue that Enoch's proposal allows us to infer the absurd conclusion that ours is the best of all possible worlds.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820811000288
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