Deontic Modals: Why Abandon the Classical Semantics?
John F. Horty · Pacific philosophical quarterly · 2014
Abstract I begin by reviewing classical semantics and the problems presented by normative conflicts. After a brief detour through default logic, I establish some connections between the treatment of conflicts in each of these two approaches, classical and default, and then move on to consider some further issues: priorities among norms, or reasons, conditional oughts, and reasons about reasons.