An Analysis of Recent Empirical Data on ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’

Philosophia 46 (1):57-67 (2018)
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Abstract

Recent experimental studies dispute the position that commonsense morality accepts ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’, the view that, necessarily, if an agent ought to perform some action, then she can perform that action. This paper considers and supports explanations for the results of these studies on the hypothesis that OIC is intuitive and true.

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Yishai Cohen
University of Southern Maine

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