Supererogation in deontic logic: Metatheory for DWE and some close neighbours

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Studia Logica 59 (3):397-415 (1997)
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In "Doing Well Enough: Toward a Logic for Common Sense Morality", Paul McNamara sets out a semantics for a deontic logic which contains the operator It is supererogatory that. As well as having a binary accessibility relation on worlds, that semantics contains a relative ordering relation, . For worlds u, v and w, we say that u w v when v is at least as good as u according to the standards of w. In this paper we axiomatize logics complete over three versions of the semantics. We call the strongest of these logics DWE for Doing Well Enough.

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Paul McNamara
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Edwin Mares
Victoria University of Wellington

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The Deontic Quadecagon.Paul F. Mcnamara - 1990 - Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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