Bradley, D (2021) Ought Contextualism and Reasoning. Synthese, 199 (1-2). pp. 2977-2999. ISSN 0039-7857
Abstract
What does logic tells us how about we ought to reason? If P entails Q, and I believe P, should I believe Q? I will argue that we should embed the issue in an independently motivated contextualist semantics for ‘ought’, with parameters for a standard and set of propositions. With the contextualist machinery in hand, we can defend a strong principle expressing how agents ought to reason while accommodating conflicting intuitions. I then show how our judgments about blame and guidance can be handled by this machinery.
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Keywords: | Ought-contextualism; Reasoning; Inferences |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy MD19\190046 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2020 12:37 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2022 13:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11229-020-02918-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:165236 |
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