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Preference‐Conditioned Necessities: Detachment and Practical Reasoning
Author(s) -
Lauer Sven,
Condoravdi Cleo
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.12049
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , rationality , epistemology , preference , natural (archaeology) , modal , psychology , philosophy , mathematics , statistics , physics , chemistry , archaeology , polymer chemistry , optics , history
This article is about conditionalized modal statements whose antecedents concern a preferential attitude of an agent. The focus is on anankastic conditionals or, as they are known in the philosophical literature, hypothetical imperatives . We present a linguistically‐motivated analysis of anankastic and related conditionals and use it to address challenges for semantic theories of natural language conditionals motivated by certain philosophical concerns about practical reasoning and the requirements of rationality.