Ought of order
Book chapter
Finlay, Stephen. (2016). Ought of order. In In N. Charlow and M. Chrisman (Ed.). Deontic Modality pp. 169 - 199 Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717928.001.0001
Authors | Finlay, Stephen |
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Editors | N. Charlow and M. Chrisman |
Abstract | Stephen Finlay argues in this chapter that Angelika Kratzer’s influential introduction of an ordering source parameter into the semantics for natural language modals was a mistake, at least for English normative modals such as ‘ought’. A simpler semantics in a dyadic framework, motivated by the need for a satisfactory treatment of instrumental (or ‘anankastic’) conditionals, also provides the resources for a better accommodation of gradability and ‘weak necessity’, information-sensitivity, and conflicts, with three moves: (i) an end-relational analysis of normative modality, (ii) an analysis of ‘ought’ or ‘weak necessity’ in terms of most, and (iii) an appeal to the same pragmatic resources utilized by Kratzer. The chapter ends with metasemantic observations about what we should want from a semantics for ‘ought’. |
Keywords | deontic modal; Angelika Kratzer; end-relational theory; weak necessity; probability; information sensitivity; anankastic conditional; hypothetical imperative |
Page range | 169 - 199 |
Year | 2016 |
Book title | Deontic Modality |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of publication | Oxford, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9780198717928 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717928.001.0001 |
Research Group | Dianoia Institute of Philosophy |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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