Deontic Modality

by Charlow, Nate; Chrisman, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780191787393
• ISBN10: 0191787396
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-08-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Nate Charlow, University of Toronto,Matthew Chrisman, University of Edinburgh

Nate Charlow works primarily on language, semantics, and related issues in meta-ethics and epistemology. He wrote a dissertation on imperatives (and deontic modals) at the University of Michigan, and has taught at the University of Toronto since 2011. His interest in imperatives and deontic modals is both linguistic and philosophical. He has published on the a priori; the semantics of conditionals, imperatives, and modals; and Expressivism.


Matthew Chrisman has taught Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh since 2006, before which he did his PhD at the University of North Carolina. He works primarily on ethical theory, philosophy of language, and epistemology. He has published The Meaning of 'Ought' with Oxford University Press and articles in journals including the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophers' Imprint.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman
1. Deontic Modals and Probabilities: One Theory to Rule Them All?, Fabrizio Cariani
2. Decision Theory: Yes! Truth Conditions: No!, Nate Charlow
3. Linguistic and Philosophical Considerations on Bayesian Semantics, Daniel Lassiter
4. Contextualism about Deontic Conditionals, Aaron Bronfman and J. L. Dowell
5. Objective and Subjective 'Ought', Ralph Wedgwood
6. Ought Out of Order, Stephen Finlay
7. On a Shared Property of Deontic and Epistemic Modals, Jessica Rett
8. Modalities of Normality, Seth Yalcin
9. Extreme and Non-Extreme Deontic Modals, Paul Portner and Aynat Rubinstein
10. Rationalization and the Ross Paradox, Benj Hellie
11. Dynamic Foundations for Deontic Logic, Malte Willer
12. Dynamic Expressivism about Deontic Modality, William Starr
13. Metanormative Theory and the Meaning of Deontic Modals, Matthew Chrisman