EXPLODING ‘OUGHT’

• Authors: David Botting
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the author wishes to discuss so-called principles of inheritance and the familiar claim that it leads to deontic paradoxes. By combining two such paradoxes it will be shown that inheritance amounts to a principle of explosion: supposing that in the actual world there is at least one thing that one ought to do, almost anything is something one ought to do. He will then attempt to qualify the principle of inheritance so as to avoid this and other paradoxical results.

Keywords

EN

DEONTIC PARADOXES; INHERITANCE; OUGHT

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 338 – 362

Contributors

author

David Botting

• Institute of Philosophy of Language, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. de Berna 26 – 4 piso, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal