Intervention in deontic reasoning

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-11-09 DOI:10.3765/sp.13.16

Woojin Chung

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Abstract

The ‘if p , ought p ’ problem, famously known as Zvolenszky’s puzzle (Zvolenszky 2002), questions whether possible world semantics can assign proper truth conditions to sentences of the form ‘if p , ought p ’. This paper suggests that it is not a problem of possible worlds semantics of modality, but rather, the ‘if p , ought p ’ problem reveals the counterfactual nature of deontic modals which otherwise would have gone unnoticed. I propose that a counterfactual-based formulation of deontic necessity that implements intervention, jointly with the assumption that indicative conditionals facilitate backtracking, offers a principled solution to the ‘if p , ought p ’ problem. I also present empirical evidence in favor of an interventionist approach to counterfactuals as opposed to similarity-based theories, at least in the domain of deontic reasoning. EARLY ACCESS

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介入道义推理

"如果p，应该p "问题，即著名的Zvolenszky难题(Zvolenszky 2002)，它质疑可能世界语义能否为"如果p，应该p "形式的句子赋予适当的真值条件。本文认为这不是情态的可能世界语义问题，而是“如果p，应该p”问题揭示了道义情态的反事实性质，否则就会被忽视。我提出了一种基于反事实的道义必要性公式，它实现了干预，与指示性条件有助于回溯的假设一起，为“如果p，应该p”问题提供了一个原则性的解决方案。我还提出了经验证据，支持干预主义方法来处理反事实，而不是基于相似性的理论，至少在道义推理领域是这样。早期访问

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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