Norms and negation: A problem for Gibbard's logic

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 202, 2001, Pages 60-75

  Unwin, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949363663     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00214     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. See P.T. Geach, 'Assertion', Philosophical Review, 74 (1965), pp. 449-65
2. Solutions alternative to Gibbard's may be found in R.M. Hare, 'Meaning and Speech Acts', Philosophical Review, 79 (1970), pp. 3-24
3. and in S. Blackburn, Spreading the Word (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)
4. and 'Attitudes and Contents', repr. in his Essays in Quasi-Realism (Oxford UP, 1993), pp. 182-97
5. My criticisms of Blackburn may be found in my 'Quasi-Realism, Negation and the Frege-Geach Problem', The Philosophical Quarterly, 49 (1999), pp. 337-52
6. Gibbard has informed me of this in private conversation
7. Robert C. Stalnaker, 'Possible Worlds', Noûs, IO (1976), pp. 65-75
8. Blackburn, 'Wise Feelings, Apt Reading', Ethics, 102 (1992), pp. 342-56, at p. 351
9. See also his 'Gibbard on Normative Logic', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52 (1992), pp. 947-52
10. For further discussion of the difficulties in connecting the concepts of obligation and permission within expressivist theories, see my 'Quasi-Realism, Negation and the Frege-Geach Problem'