Hume On Is-Ought: A Reinterpretation

On the genesis of "is" and "ought".

Human beings are confronted by how things, including themselves, work and how they ought to work. Human beings are also confronted, relatedly, by movement and language. The purpose of this note is to suggest an objective physical base within which these philosophic, psychological, and physiological properties of complex systems can be anchored.

' ought ' . ethical concepts . ' Is

Moral philosophy in the English-speaking world has been dominated during the present century by the controversy concerning the logical relationship between 'is' and 'ought'. These terms are, of course, to be understood in the present context as shorthand labels. By 'is' is meant any non-moral assertion, that is to say, any utterance which purports to be either true or false and which does not e...

FSM-Hume is finite state

Hume is a domain-specific programming language targeting resourcebounded computations. It is based on generalised concurrent bounded automata, controlled by transitions characterised by pattern matching on inputs and recursive function generation of outputs. Here we discuss the design of FSM-Hume, a strict finite state subset of Hume, and suggest that it is indeed classically finite state.

Hume on Testimony Revisited

Among contemporary epistemologists of testimony, David Hume is standardly regarded as a ‘global reductionist’, where global reductionism requires the hearer to have sufficient first-hand knowledge of the facts in order to individually ascertain the reliability of the testimony in question. In the present paper, I argue that, by construing Hume’s reductionism in too individualistic a fashion, th...

Hume on well-being