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Deontic Modals: Why Abandon the Default Approach

Erkenntnis, 2017
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Deontic Modals are Hyperintensional

2019
I argue that deontic modals are hyperintensional, that is, logical equivalent contents cannot be substituted in their scope. I give two arguments, one is deductive and the other abductive. First, I simply prove that the contrary thesis leads to falsity; second, I claim that a hyperintensional theory of deontic modals fares better than its rivals in ...
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Truthmaker Semantics for Deontic Modals

2019
In this chapter I briefly give a philosophical introduction to truthmaker semantics and I present Fine’s logic and semantics for imperatives, I discuss two philosophical difficulties for Fine’s account (but really, for every truthmaker semantics similar to his) and propose some technical solutions.
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Decision-theoretic relativity in deontic modality

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2018
This paper explores the idea that a semantics for ‘ought’ should be neutral between different ways of deciding what an agent ought to do in a situation (e.g. different decision theories). While the idea is, I argue, well-motivated, taking it seriously leads to surprising, even paradoxical, problems for theorizing about the meaning of ‘ought’.
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The origins of ethics: Deontic modality

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2005
Most psychoanalytic writers have followed developmental psychologists such as Piaget and Kohlberg in viewing the acquisition of morality as requiring language skills and, consequently, originating after infancy. Even psychoanalytic theorists who emphasize the mother–infant dyad (such as Winnicott) and those whose focus is the therapeutic relationship ...
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Deontic Modals with Complex Acts

2015
The paper identifies a key pragmatic principle that is responsible for the information-sensitivity of deontic modals. Information-sensitivity has been extensively discussed in the recent linguistic and philosophical literature, in connection with a decision problem known as the Miners’ puzzle (Kolodny and MacFarlane 2010).
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Deontic Modal Expressions

Abstract Over the past fifteen years, linguists and philosophers of language have re-examined the canonical, Kratzerian semantics for modal expressions, with special attention paid to their epistemic and deontic uses. This chapter is an overview of the literature on deontic modal expressions.
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Combinations of Tense and Deontic Modality

2004
We consider three infinite hierarchies of what I call ”two-dimensional temporal logics with explicit realization operators”, viz. (i) one without historical or deontic modalities, (ii) one with historical but without deontic modalities, and (iii) one with historical and with dyadic deontic modalities for conditional obligation and permission. Sound and
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Disjunction Under Deontic Modals: Experimental Data

2019
The meaning components of may/or and must/or sentences have been discussed intensively by a number of theoretical accounts. The debates are concerned with whether free choice inferences are part of logical meaning or scalar implicatures, and additionally, whether exhaustive inferences and exclusive or inferences are derived for may/or versus must/or ...
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Factoring Disjunction Out of Deontic Modal Puzzles

2014
Ross’s puzzle (Ross, 1941) and the paradox of Free Choice Permission (Kamp, 1973), puzzles involving disjunction under deontic operators, have received wide discussion in recent work in natural language semantics. First, I contrast two opposed modal views—call them the “box-diamond” theory and EU theory—that form two poles of the contemporary debate ...
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