How does the naturalistic fallacy relate to debates about animal rights and welfare?

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Many 'natural' things are also considered 'good', and this can bias our thinking; but naturalness itself doesn't make something good or bad. For instance murder ... Jun 2, 2011 ... Caldwell, Bruce and Reiss, Julian (2006) Hayek, logic, and the naturalistic fallacy. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, ... May 2, 2013 ... This book describes the "naturalistic fallacy", as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, ... Cite this article. Mulloch, P. The naturalistic fallacy and Anderson's systems OM. Philos Stud 22, 60–61 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00420994. Feb 7, 2011 ... I've just been told that to make a value judgment based on facts (or to derive an "ought" from an "is") is a naturalistic fallacy. The Naturalistic Fallacy is based on the mistaken notion that you can deduce moral lessons from observing nature... that is, what is natural is morally good. - ... Certain scholars wish to acquit St. Thomas Aquinas of the “illicit inference from facts to norms” commonly referred to as the naturalistic fallacy. Seeing in ... This view I propose to call the “naturalistic fallacy.” ( Moore, 1978, p. 10). According to Moore, it is fallacious to define goodness in terms of natural ... Apr 22, 2022 ... The Naturalistic Fallacy is about the naturalistic fallacy in a broad sense and its meaning, merits, legacy, and implications. Readers of ... An appeal to nature is a logical fallacy that occurs when something is assumed to be good because it is "natural" or bad because it is "unnatural".
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