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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Acts, the Logic of Obligation, and Deontic Calculi
Crítica, 1967 Spanish summary for this article can be read on pages 96-99 of the PDF.
Héctor-Neri Castañeda
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Adaptive logic characterizations of input/output logic [PDF]
, 2016 We translate unconstrained and constrained input/output logics as introduced by Makinson and van der Torre to modal logics, using adaptive logics for the constrained case. The resulting reformulation has some additional benefits. First, we obtain a proof-
Beirlaen, Mathieu +2 more
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Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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The Varieties of Ought-implies-Can and Deontic STIT Logic [PDF]
, 2021 STIT logic is a prominent framework for the analysis of multi-agent choice-making. In the available deontic extensions of STIT, the principle of Ought-implies-Can (OiC) fulfills a central role.
Lyon, Tim, van Berkel, Kees
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Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
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Norm Circles and Critical Realism
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT An increasing number of scholars have employed the critical realist concept of norm circles in empirical research. Norm circles are social structures, composed of human agents, that tend to encourage people to conform with norms. As such, they provide a (partly) structural explanation for social normativity, which in turn plays an important ...
Dave Elder‐Vass, Manuel Heckel
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A Paraconsistentist Approach to Chisholm's Paradox
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2009 The Logics of Deontic (In)Consistency (LDI’s) can be considered as the deontic counterpart of the paraconsistent logics known as Logics of Formal (In)Consistency.
Marcelo Esteban Coniglio +1 more
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A Social Pragmatic View on the Concept of Normative Consistency [PDF]
, 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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Logical Semantics and Norms: A Kantian Perspective [PDF]
, 2017 It’s widely accepted that normativity is not subject to truth values. The underlying reasoning is that truth values can only be predicated of descriptive statements; normative statements are prescriptive, not descriptive; thus truth value predicates ...
Mascarenhas, Sérgio
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