The semantics of conditionals is one of the fundamental and most debated problems in philosophy: David Lewis, C. E. Alchourrón, Paul Grice, Angelika Kratzer, Allan Gibbard, David Lycan, and many others have eagerly developed highly technical, extensive analyses of conditional sentences. Conditionals are also one of the main puzzles in deontic logic: they have been for decades the objects of lively debates within the analytic tradition. With respect to standard indicative conditionals, normative conditionals present a further complication: there is an ought-element that shall be accommodated into the conditional struc- ture. The present section of our journal Analisi e Diritto contains four recent pro- posals, made by authors that, although coming from very different legal tradi- tions, share the very same analytic approach: Giovanni Battista Ratti, from the University of Genova (Italy); Jorge Rodríguez, from National University of Mar del Plata University (Argentina); Nicola Muffato, from the University of Trieste (Italy); and Hidehiko Adachi, from the University of Kanazawa (Japan). Para- graph § 1 offers a summary of these important contributions; § 2 draws out some open questions. Paragraph § 3 contains a short conclusion. The general aim of this introduction is to provide the reader with some background information.

Normative Conditionals: A Short Guide

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2017-01-01

Abstract

The semantics of conditionals is one of the fundamental and most debated problems in philosophy: David Lewis, C. E. Alchourrón, Paul Grice, Angelika Kratzer, Allan Gibbard, David Lycan, and many others have eagerly developed highly technical, extensive analyses of conditional sentences. Conditionals are also one of the main puzzles in deontic logic: they have been for decades the objects of lively debates within the analytic tradition. With respect to standard indicative conditionals, normative conditionals present a further complication: there is an ought-element that shall be accommodated into the conditional struc- ture. The present section of our journal Analisi e Diritto contains four recent pro- posals, made by authors that, although coming from very different legal tradi- tions, share the very same analytic approach: Giovanni Battista Ratti, from the University of Genova (Italy); Jorge Rodríguez, from National University of Mar del Plata University (Argentina); Nicola Muffato, from the University of Trieste (Italy); and Hidehiko Adachi, from the University of Kanazawa (Japan). Para- graph § 1 offers a summary of these important contributions; § 2 draws out some open questions. Paragraph § 3 contains a short conclusion. The general aim of this introduction is to provide the reader with some background information.
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