2017

>2017
>Not deriving an ought from an is

What's your excuse, Veeky Forums?

Not suffering from severe mental retardation.

What does deriving an ought from an is actually mean?

Still haven't bought a PhD.

Ought = morality
Is = facts

>2017
>being a less talented version of Ben Stiller

The Moral Landscape is utter garbage.

That's my excuse, Sam "Torture is 100% A-OK" Harris.

Sam Harris is right about torture btw, doesn't matter how ridiculous The Moral Landscape is

I don't think he tries to derive an ought from an is. What he's arguing against is people who misunderstand the is/ought gap, who think it is the end of moral philosophy and necessarily leads to moral relativism. He basically just argues for a form of moral realism.

Any sufficiently elaborated on prescription statement becomes a predictive statement, which can then be falsified.