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Informationen zum Autor Nate Charlow works primarily on language, semantics, and related issues in meta-ethics and epistemology. He wrote a dissertation on imperatives (and deontic modals) at the University of Michigan, and has taught at the University of Toronto since 2011. His interest in imperatives and deontic modals is both linguistic and philosophical. He has published on the a priori; the semantics of conditionals, imperatives, and modals; and Expressivism.Matthew Chrisman has taught Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh since 2006, before which he did his PhD at the University of North Carolina. He works primarily on ethical theory, philosophy of language, and epistemology. He has published The Meaning of 'Ought' with Oxford University Press and articles in journals including the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophers' Imprint. Klappentext This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality: the meaning and function of language relating to what is allowed, required, or obligatory, in view of moral or legal demands. A team of leading experts in philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistics tackle key issues at the heart of the debate. Zusammenfassung This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality: the meaning and function of language relating to what is allowed, required, or obligatory, in view of moral or legal demands. A team of leading experts in philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistics tackle key issues at the heart of the debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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This volume presents new work on the much-discussed topic of deontic modality: the meaning and function of language relating to what is allowed, required, or obligatory, in view of moral or legal demands. A team of leading experts in philosophy of language, meta-ethics, and linguistics tackle key issues at the heart of the debate.
