{"id":14077,"date":"2026-05-04T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14077"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:49:42","slug":"after-macintyre-on-deriving-ought-from-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/after-macintyre-on-deriving-ought-from-is\/","title":{"rendered":"After MacIntyre: On Deriving &#8216;Ought&#8217; from &#8216;Is&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are there any (non-trivial) valid arguments that satisfy the following conditions: (i) The premises are all purely factual in the sense of purporting to state only what is the case; (ii) the conclusion is normative\/evaluative? Alasdair MacIntyre gives an example (<strong>After Virtue<\/strong>, U. of Notre Dame Press, 1981, p. 55) that is plausible but not rationally coercive.<\/p>\n<p><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/after-macintyre-on-deriving-ought?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there any (non-trivial) valid arguments that satisfy the following conditions: (i) The premises are all purely factual in the sense of purporting to state only what is the case; (ii) the conclusion is normative\/evaluative? Alasdair MacIntyre gives an example (After Virtue, U. of Notre Dame Press, 1981, p. 55) that is plausible but not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/after-macintyre-on-deriving-ought-from-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After MacIntyre: On Deriving &#8216;Ought&#8217; from &#8216;Is&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,113,459,440,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aristotle","category-logica-utens","category-metaethics","category-normativity","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14079,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14077\/revisions\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}