Deontic modality
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Deontic modality
Oxford University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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An extraordinary amount of recent work by philosophers of language, meta-ethicists, and semanticists has focused on the meaning and function of language expressing concepts having to do with what is allowed, forbidden, required, or obligatory, in view of the requirements of morality, the law, one's preferences or goals, or what an authority has commanded: in short, deontic modality.
This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality by leading figures in the philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistic semantics. The papers tackle issues about the place of decision and probability theory in the semantics of deontic modality, the viability of standard possible worlds treatments of the truth conditions of deontic modal sentences, the possibility of dynamic semantic treatments of deontic modality, the methodology of semantics for deontic
modals, and the prospects for representationalist, expressivist, and inferentialist treatments of deontic modality.
Table of Contents
Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman: Introduction
1: Fabrizio Cariani: Deontic Modals and Probabilities: One Theory to Rule Them All?
2: Nate Charlow: Decision Theory: Yes! Truth Conditions: No!
3: Daniel Lassiter: Linguistic and Philosophical Considerations on Bayesian Semantics
4: Aaron Bronfman and J. L. Dowell: Contextualism about Deontic Conditionals
5: Ralph Wedgwood: Objective and Subjective 'Ought'
6: Stephen Finlay: Ought Out of Order
7: Jessica Rett: On a Shared Property of Deontic and Epistemic Modals
8: Seth Yalcin: Modalities of Normality
9: Paul Portner and Aynat Rubinstein: Extreme and Non-Extreme Deontic Modals
10: Benj Hellie: Rationalization and the Ross Paradox
11: Malte Willer: Dynamic Foundations for Deontic Logic
12: William Starr: Dynamic Expressivism about Deontic Modality
13: Matthew Chrisman: Metanormative Theory and the Meaning of Deontic Modals
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