Formalizing Reasons, Oughts, and Requirements

Reasons-based accounts of our normative conclusions face difficulties in distinguishing between what ought to be done and what is required. This article addresses this problem from a formal perspective. I introduce a rudimentary formalization of a reasons-based account and demonstrate that that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robert Mullins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2021-10-01
Series:Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/1119/