Has Hume's guillotine ever been credibly refuted by an accredited scholar of moral philosophy?

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/ekk8wn/has_humes_guillotine_ever_been_credibly_refuted/

created by Whiskeysnout on 05/01/2020 at 22:38 UTC

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Comment by justanediblefriend at 05/01/2020 at 23:24 UTC

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What exactly do you mean by "refuted?" A lot of discussion occurs over the autonomy of ethics in all sorts of senses, many of which you might think might be "Hume's guillotine."

Here's one claim that has been uncontroversially refuted that sometimes laypeople will say is the is-ought gap:

But it's also super unlikely that Hume was trying to communicate some naive logical autonomy. Rather, many more are concerned with the autonomy between moral facts (also, usually, normative facts at large as well) and descriptive facts in a *metaphysical* or sometimes *epistemological* sense. Metaethicists are concerned with whether moral facts can be reducible to any descriptive facts. They're also concerned with whether they can be fully grounded in descriptive facts. They're concerned about other things like this.

Some of these claims have more people affirming them in light of the research than rejecting them. Do you need consensus for refutation? How much? What are you asking for?

Comment by [deleted] at 06/01/2020 at 02:48 UTC*

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Comment by TychoCelchuuu at 06/01/2020 at 00:46 UTC

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http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1wmmm5/challenge_to_the_isought_distinction_based_on_the/

http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/2sivxx/isought_problem/

http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1op3o1/what_are_the_usual_responses_to_the_isought/

http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/2iw52b/how_do_moral_objectivistsrealists_respond_to_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/4hute0/is_there_a_good_rebuttal_to_humes_is_ought_problem/

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/4uc335/isought_problem_responses/

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/czbb3c/has_there_been_an_indepth_rebuttal_to_humes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/d33f57/problems_with_the_isought_fallacy/?st=k51q53xm&sh=2ff3ad11

Comment by BernardJOrtcutt at 06/01/2020 at 17:25 UTC

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