Science vs. Politics: Hume's Guillotine
By Helen Dale
Setting up her discussion of Snowdon's Killjoys and Leyonhjelm's Freedom's Salesman, Dale invokes Hume's principle that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is."
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Setting up her discussion of Snowdon's Killjoys and Leyonhjelm's Freedom's Salesman, Dale invokes Hume's principle that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is."
Dale considers how two political thinkers engage with some concrete policy questions, informed by scientific findings but applying Hume's Guillotine.