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647Generics and Weak NecessityInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 1-28. 2018.A prevailing thought is that generics have a covert modal operator at logical form. I claim that if this is right, the covert generic modality is a weak necessity modal. In this paper, I pr...
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365Moral principles as genericsJournal of the American Philosophical Association 1-20. forthcoming.I argue that moral principles involve the same sort of generalization as ordinary yet elusive generic generalizations in natural language such as 'Tigers are striped' or 'Peppers are spicy'. A notable advantage of the generic view is that it simultaneously allows for pessimism and optimism about the role and status of moral principles in our lives. It provides a new perspective on the nature of moral principles on which principles are not apt for determining the moral status of particular action…Read more
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University of Nevada, RenoDepartment of Philosophy
APA Central Division
Reno, NV, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Value Theory |