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Automated Reasoning in Normative Detachment Structures with Ideal Conditions

open access: yes, 2018
Systems of deontic logic suffer either from being too expressive and therefore hard to mechanize, or from being too simple to capture relevant aspects of normative reasoning.
Libal, Tomer, Pascucci, Matteo
core   +3 more sources

Conditionals and KK

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we explore the tension between the KK thesis and an attractive principle concerning the assertability of conditionals. We explore the prospects for defending the KK thesis against the problems posed, and conclude that they are dim.
John Hawthorne, Yoaav Isaacs
wiley   +1 more source

No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
wiley   +1 more source

Um panorama da lógica deôntica

open access: yesKriterion, 2008
O presente artigo é uma apresentação dos principais sistemas de lógica deôntica, na qual algumas conexões éticas e jurídicas relevantes são enfatizadas.This article contains a general survey of the main systems of deontic logic, emphasizing some ethical ...
Nelson Gonçalves Gomes
doaj   +1 more source

A Social Pragmatic View on the Concept of Normative Consistency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The programmatic statement put forward in von Wright's last works on deontic logic introduces the perspective of logical pragmatics, which has been formally explicated here and extended so to include the role of norm-recipient as well as the role of norm-
Žarnić, Berislav
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Zetetic Flyovers

open access: yesPhilosophical Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has recently been argued that purported evidential and zetetic norms issue contradictory verdicts and that such contradictions best be resolved in favor of zetetic norms. The paper argues that this line of argument proves unsuccessful. First, natural formulations of what one ought to do if inquiring into a given matter resemble anankastic ...
Julien Dutant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acts, the Logic of Obligation, and Deontic Calculi

open access: yesCrítica, 1967
Spanish summary for this article can be read on pages 96-99 of the PDF.
Héctor-Neri Castañeda
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifiers for a Modal Future

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
wiley   +1 more source

"Ought" and Error [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The moral error theory generally does not receive good press in metaethics. This paper adds to the bad news. In contrast to other critics, though, I do not attack error theorists’ characteristic thesis that no moral assertion is ever true.
Tiefensee, Christine
core  

Beyond Normativity

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a growing number of philosophers come to defend normative nihilism. Even if their arguments do not induce in many a belief in normative nihilism, there may be grounds on which to be less than certain about the falsity of normative nihilism.
Lewis Williams
wiley   +1 more source

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