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Deontic Modality

By Nate Charlow

Deontic Modality

By Nate Charlow

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
444
Release Date:
2016-08-23
Publication Date:
2016-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019871792X
ISBN13:
9780198717928
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
828 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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