THE FREE CHOICE PRINCIPLE AS A DEFAULT RULE

• Authors: Glavaničová Daniela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It is quite plausible to say that you may read or write implies that you may read and you may write (though possibly not both at once). This so-called free choice principle is well-known in deontic logic. Sadly, despite being so intuitive and seemingly innocent, this principle causes a lot of worries. The paper briefly but critically examines leading accounts of free choice permission present in the literature. Subsequently, the paper suggests to accept the free choice principle, but only as a default (or defeasible) rule, issuing to it a ticket-of-leave, granting it some freedom, until it commits an undesired inference.

Keywords

EN

DEFEASIBILITY; DEFAULT RULE; FREE CHOICE PERMISSION; PARADOX

• 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: 2018
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 495 – 516

Contributors

author

Glavaničová Daniela

• Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic