Abstract: AbstractThe present chapter concerns arguments whose conclusions take the form of a prescription such asyou ought to do such-and-such, which have driven much public discussion and policy since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We aim to tackle a hitherto under-explored characteristic of many such normative arguments, namely, the relationship between evaluative and deontic propositions, depending on whether they occur as premises or conclusions in such arguments. In order to investigate how willing people are to argue from what is good to ...
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Topics: 
Epistemology
Social psychology