Research Catalog

Title

Deontic modality / edited by Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Charlow, Nate, 1984-
• Chrisman, Matthew

Description

434 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--

Subject

• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Deontic logic
• Modality (Logic)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Deontic modals and probabilities : one theory to rule them all? / Fabrizio Cariani -- 2. Decision theory : Yes! truth conditions : No! / Nate Charlow -- 3. Linguistic and philosophical considerations on Bayesian semantics / Daniel Lassiter -- 4. Contextualism about deontic conditionals / Aaron Bronfman and J.L. Dowell -- 5. Objective and subjective 'ought' / Ralph Wedgwood -- 6. Ought out of order / Stephen Finlay -- 7. On a shared property of deontic and epistemic modals / Jessica Rett -- 8. Modalities of normality / Seth Yalcin -- 9. Extreme and non-extreme deontic modals / Paul Portner and Aynat Rubinstein -- 10. Rationalization and the Ross paradox / Benj Hellie -- 11. Dynamic foundations for deontic logic / Malte Willer -- 12. Dynamic expressivism about deontic modality / William B. Starr -- 13. Metanormative theory and the meaning of deontic modals / Matthew Chrisman.

Call Number

JFE 16-11305

ISBN

• 019871792X
• 9780198717928

LCCN

2015960289

OCLC

926819872

Title

Deontic modality / edited by Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Charlow, Nate, 1984- editor.

Chrisman, Matthew, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11305