The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding
liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, privatization, rule of law, centrally planned …

In this paper, I present the results of an experimental study on intuitions about moral
obligation (ought) and ability (can). Many philosophers accept as an axiom the principle …

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial
Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much …

A standard principle in ethics is that moral obligation entails ability, or that “ought implies
can”. A strong case has been made that this principle is not well motivated in moral …

It is sometimes argued that non-agent collectives, including what one might call the 'global
collective'consisting of the world's population taken as a whole, cannot be the bearers of non …

In this paper, I argue that the “Ought Implies Can”(OIC) principle, as it is employed in
epistemology, particularly in the literature on epistemic norms, is open to counterexamples. I …

When we can't live up to the ultimate standards of morality, how can moral theory give us
guidance? We can distinguish between ideal and non‐ideal theory to see that there are …

The Value-free ideal of science (VFI) is a view that claims that scientists should not use non-
epistemic values when they are justifying their hypotheses, and is widely considered to be …

While many find it plausible to think that the present generation has obligations to future
generations, it is more controversial to think that future generations have rights against the …

Those who want to deny the 'ought implies can'principle often turn to weakened views to
explain 'ought implies can'phenomena. The two most common versions of such views are …