17 What is the Role of Logic in Ethics? – The Inseparability of Logic and Ethics

To gain an understanding of the role of logic in ethics, please read John Corcoran’s “The Inseparability of Logic and Ethics”:

The Inseparability of Logic and Ethics by John Corcoran

ABSTRACT: This essay takes logic and ethics in broad senses: logic as the science of evidence; ethics as the science of justice. One of its main conclusions is that neither science can be fruitfully pursued without the virtues fostered by the other: logic is pointless without fairness and compassion; ethics is pointless without rigor and objectivity. The logician’s advice to be dispassionate is in resonance and harmony with the ethicist’s advice us to be compassionate.

The journal article included here is written in English, and 11 Translations are posted on ACADEMIA.EDU: Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. More would be welcome. Translators for other languages are needed.

https://www.academia.edu/9413409/INSEPARABILITY_OF_LOGIC_AND_ETHICS

Permission granted through email correspondence with the author, John Corcoran, on July 24, 2020: 

“I hereby grant DEBBIE HOLT permission to use my article, John Corcoran 1989. The Inseparability of Logic and Ethics, Free Inquiry, Spring, 37–40, in an open educational resource (OER).”