Passing the Deontic Buck*
Matt Bedke · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2011
This chapter explores buck-passing analyses of deontic properties in terms of reasons. The preferred analysis is that the permissibility / impermissibility / optionality / requiredness /etc. of some agent's acting is to be couched in terms of reasons to respond in some way to that agent's action, or the prospect thereof. Along the way the chapter tries to accommodate supererogation, wrong kinds of reasons objections, and commonly accepted inferences in deontic logic.