How should we balance the scientific imperative to explore space with the need to protect potential extraterrestrial environments?

Week Two (September 11th and 13th): The Naturalistic Fallacy. Required Readings: Moore, Principia Ethica, §§ 1-17. Frankena, “The Naturalistic Fallacy”. Week ... 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 ... 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. ... naturalistic fallacy, donor profiles, public communication, and reversibility. ... naturalistic fallacy'. The fallacy, also known as the “is-ought problem ... The naturalistic fallacy is when we think the way things are in nature or have been historically is the way they should be for us. Abstract. David Hume famously argued that we cannot logically move from sentences about how the world is, to sentences about how it ought to be. Doing so has ... Jun 24, 2024 ... Naturalistic fallacy example “Humans have always engaged in competing for resources, and taking a selfish approach helps ensure survival. May 27, 2014 ... ... naturalistic fallacy, is/ought inferences, epistemic “oughts,” deontic “oughts,” defeasible reasoning, deontic reasoning. When scholars ... 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 ... fallacy, and to indicate where the issue really lies. The prominence of the concept of a naturalistic fallacy in recent moral philosophy is another testimony to ...