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Deontic Logic Based on Inquisitive Semantics
, 2021 This paper introduces deontic logic based on inquisitive semantics. A semantics for action formulas is introduced where each action formula is associated with a set of alternatives.
Nygren, Karl,
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, 2023 The use of meta-rules in logic, i.e., rules whose content includes other rules, has recently gained attention in the setting of non-monotonic reasoning: a first logical formalisation and efficient algorithms to compute the (meta)-extensions of such ...
Governatori, G +14 more
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Journal of Language and LiteratureSexual harassment in higher education is a pervasive issue that carries serious implications for both institutional reputation and the well-being of victims.
Bernard Ayine +3 more
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Modal Auxiliaries in Sorani Kurdish [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 “Modality is concerned with the status of the proposition that describes the event” (Palmer, 2001: 1). This grammatical category is common to every language, shown by the help of some grammatical or lexical elements such as mood, auxiliaries, clitics ...
Roonak Moradi
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Advocacy and the function of folk psychology
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Why do we care about getting mental state attributions right? A common answer is that folk psychology is a proto‐scientific theory that allows us to predict and explain the behavior of physical systems. I argue that this position is inconsistent with one of the central practices in which attribution of desire occurs: to advocate for our interests and ...
Henry Schiller
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A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
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Power of source as a factor in deontic inference
, 2007 Power has been studied in various guises in both the social cognition and the reasoning literatures. In this paper, three experiments are reported in which this factor was investigated in the domain of deontic thinking.
Over, D.E. +2 more
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“Justifying Military Conscription”
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that wartime military conscription can be justified only if potential conscripts have duties to enlist, or duties to participate in an enlistment lottery, that conscription forces them to discharge. I explore whether our interpersonal duties to rescue can ground a duty to enlist.
Helen Frowe
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Consent, Trust, and Sexual Ethics
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT No one describes a passionate night using the language of consent. Partners in long‐term relationships rarely think of intimacy in terms of permission. If consent is absent precisely when things go well, why does it dominate sexual ethics? Critics have pressed this challenge but have failed to explain why consent is irrelevant rather than ...
Elise Woodard
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De‐Moralizing Friendship: Unfinished Business
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We have duties to our friends that we don't have to strangers. Philosophers traditionally take these duties of friendship to be moral duties. But this moralist position cannot accommodate the full scope of the duties that we have to our friends. Many of these associative duties appear to be duties of a distinct normative kind.
Jessica Isserow
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