Obligation and Regret When There is No Fact of the Matter About What Would Have Happened if You Had not Done What You Did

It is natural to distinguish between objective and subjective senses of ‘ought’. Roughly: what you ought to do in the objective sense has to do with the merits and demerits of the options available to you, while what you ought to do in the subjective sense has to do with the merits and de-merits...

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Main Author: Hare, Caspar
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61723
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