Doing well enough: Toward a logic for common-sense morality

Studia Logica

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 167-192

  McNamara, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deontic logic; Indifference; Optimality; Ordering semantics; Supererogation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746367430     PISSN: 00393215     EISSN: 15728730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00370674     Document Type: Article

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