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PEA Soup

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Author: Dowell

Ideas, Metaethics Posted onOctober 10, 2014August 5, 2016

Some thoughts on constructing and justifying semantic and metasemantic theories

Hi, everyone.  Meena Krishnamurthy has very generously allowed me to post a few prelimary thoughts on the above topic and I thought I’d shard the […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onJuly 2, 2010

A Contextualist Solution to a Puzzle about “Ought”s and “If”s

Consider the following scenario: MINERS: 10 miners are trapped in a flooding mine; they are either all in shaft A or all in shaft B.  […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onJune 9, 2009

Flexible Contextualism about ‘Ought’s

Thanks to everyone for sharing their intuitions about the cases in my previous post. Here I’m going to back up and say something about my […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onMay 31, 2009

Intuitions about Bare Normative Modal Statements

Right now I’m thinking about the proper descriptive semantics for bare, normative modal statements, statements that use expressions like “must”, “ought”, and “may” normatively but […] Read More

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