A remark on iffy oughts

Journal of Philosophy 109 (7):449–61 (2012)
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Every adequate semantics for conditionals and deontic ought must offer a solution to the miners paradox about conditional obligations. Kolodny and MacFarlane have recently argued that such a semantics must reject the validity of modus ponens. I demonstrate that rejecting the validity of modus ponens is inessential for an adequate solution to the paradox.

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10.5840/jphil2012109719

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