the ag obliga curren Instea for ag rules o in con 200 In tion a praise I exp obliga deont agent a... more the ag obliga curren Instea for ag rules o in con 200 In tion a praise I exp obliga deont agent at the E 1 A employ pre-det Herres this pa 1570-8 doi:10.Agential obligation as non-agential personal obligation plus agency
I specify a very large class of logics with monadic and dyadic modal operators, primarily (but no... more I specify a very large class of logics with monadic and dyadic modal operators, primarily (but not exclusively) intended to represent monadic and dyadic agency in the tradition of Kanger, Pörn, Elgesem, etc. I explore logics both for pure monadic agency, pure dyadic agency, and mixed monadic-dyadic agency. Employing neighborhood semantic frames, but with an extra parameter governed by a modest algebraic structure, I prove determination theorems for all the consistent logics of those specified. I briefly present some motivation and rationales for some of the principles, but the main focus is on the framework and key meta-theorems.
... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn&... more ... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn't exist. ... purpose -- just as an arrow-shaped rock might actually become an arrowhead in virtue of being recruited for that purpose) Let me now sketch a variation on Dretske's Buster Case. ...
... Nor would it, be enougt~ to simply say that the nornmtivc notions of (leontic logic arc alway... more ... Nor would it, be enougt~ to simply say that the nornmtivc notions of (leontic logic arc always t)ractical, since the operator "it, ougtlt to t)e the case that", t)ertmt)s the most stlulie(1 oI)crator in (leontic l()gic, ai)t)ears to have no greater intrinsic link to t)racticality thail (loes "cre(lit)le ...
... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn&... more ... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn't exist. ... purpose -- just as an arrow-shaped rock might actually become an arrowhead in virtue of being recruited for that purpose) Let me now sketch a variation on Dretske's Buster Case. ...
Abstract. Continuing prior work ([1, 2]), I integrate a simple system for per-sonal obligation wi... more Abstract. Continuing prior work ([1, 2]), I integrate a simple system for per-sonal obligation with a system for aretaic (agent-evaluative) appraisal. I then explore various relationships between definable aretaic statuses such as praiseworthiness and blameworthiness and deontic ...
... Christine M. Korsgaard is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy and director of ... more ... Christine M. Korsgaard is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy and director of graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard University. She is a past president of the Eastern Division of the America Philosophical Association ...
Some key pre-theoretic semantic and pragmatic phenomena that support a negative answer to the mai... more Some key pre-theoretic semantic and pragmatic phenomena that support a negative answer to the main title question are identified and a conclusion of some significance is drawn: a pervasive bipartisan presupposition of twentieth century ethical theory and deontic logic is false. Next, an intuitive model-theoretic framework for "must" and "ought" is hypothesized. It is then shown how this hypothesis helps to explain and predict all the pre-theoretic phenomena previously observed. Next, I show that the framework hypothesized possesses additional expressive and explanatory power, thus adding further confirmation that it is on the right track.
the ag obliga curren Instea for ag rules o in con 200 In tion a praise I exp obliga deont agent a... more the ag obliga curren Instea for ag rules o in con 200 In tion a praise I exp obliga deont agent at the E 1 A employ pre-det Herres this pa 1570-8 doi:10.Agential obligation as non-agential personal obligation plus agency
I specify a very large class of logics with monadic and dyadic modal operators, primarily (but no... more I specify a very large class of logics with monadic and dyadic modal operators, primarily (but not exclusively) intended to represent monadic and dyadic agency in the tradition of Kanger, Pörn, Elgesem, etc. I explore logics both for pure monadic agency, pure dyadic agency, and mixed monadic-dyadic agency. Employing neighborhood semantic frames, but with an extra parameter governed by a modest algebraic structure, I prove determination theorems for all the consistent logics of those specified. I briefly present some motivation and rationales for some of the principles, but the main focus is on the framework and key meta-theorems.
... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn&... more ... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn't exist. ... purpose -- just as an arrow-shaped rock might actually become an arrowhead in virtue of being recruited for that purpose) Let me now sketch a variation on Dretske's Buster Case. ...
... Nor would it, be enougt~ to simply say that the nornmtivc notions of (leontic logic arc alway... more ... Nor would it, be enougt~ to simply say that the nornmtivc notions of (leontic logic arc always t)ractical, since the operator "it, ougtlt to t)e the case that", t)ertmt)s the most stlulie(1 oI)crator in (leontic l()gic, ai)t)ears to have no greater intrinsic link to t)racticality thail (loes "cre(lit)le ...
... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn&... more ... Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, even though the fountain of youth didn't exist. ... purpose -- just as an arrow-shaped rock might actually become an arrowhead in virtue of being recruited for that purpose) Let me now sketch a variation on Dretske's Buster Case. ...
Abstract. Continuing prior work ([1, 2]), I integrate a simple system for per-sonal obligation wi... more Abstract. Continuing prior work ([1, 2]), I integrate a simple system for per-sonal obligation with a system for aretaic (agent-evaluative) appraisal. I then explore various relationships between definable aretaic statuses such as praiseworthiness and blameworthiness and deontic ...
... Christine M. Korsgaard is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy and director of ... more ... Christine M. Korsgaard is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy and director of graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard University. She is a past president of the Eastern Division of the America Philosophical Association ...
Some key pre-theoretic semantic and pragmatic phenomena that support a negative answer to the mai... more Some key pre-theoretic semantic and pragmatic phenomena that support a negative answer to the main title question are identified and a conclusion of some significance is drawn: a pervasive bipartisan presupposition of twentieth century ethical theory and deontic logic is false. Next, an intuitive model-theoretic framework for "must" and "ought" is hypothesized. It is then shown how this hypothesis helps to explain and predict all the pre-theoretic phenomena previously observed. Next, I show that the framework hypothesized possesses additional expressive and explanatory power, thus adding further confirmation that it is on the right track.
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