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Deontic Modals: Why Abandon the Classical Semantics?
Author(s) -
Horty John
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12044
Subject(s) - deontic logic , normative , semantics (computer science) , modal verb , computer science , epistemology , modal , linguistics , philosophy , programming language , verb , chemistry , polymer chemistry
I begin by reviewing classical semantics and the problems presented by normative conflicts. After a brief detour through default logic, I establish some connections between the treatment of conflicts in each of these two approaches, classical and default, and then move on to consider some further issues: priorities among norms, or reasons, conditional oughts, and reasons about reasons.