Deontic Modals: Why Abandon the Classical Semantics?

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 95 (4):424-460 (2014)
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I begin by reviewing classical semantics and the problems presented by normative conflicts. After a brief detour through default logic, I establish some connections between the treatment of conflicts in each of these two approaches, classical and default, and then move on to consider some further issues: priorities among norms, or reasons, conditional oughts, and reasons about reasons

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10.1111/papq.12044

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