Wishful Thinking in Moral Theorizing: Comment on Enoch

Utilitas 23 (4):447-450 (2011)
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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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Rob Van Someren Greve
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