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In defense of the expressive conception of norms

Andrej Kristan

pp. 375-394

Against a background of the past three decades of critique directed towards the expressive conception of norms, the author argues first that paradigm expressivists can well account for facultative states of affairs without introducing inconsistencies into the normative system. He then shows how to describe the propositional content of a meta-rule without semanticizing the force indicator of object-rules. Finally, the author provides a formal reconstruction of conditional norms and of permissive closure, without admitting the conceptual autonomy of acts of permitting. The first parts of this chapter are of a clarifying nature, whereas the last parts purport to present an advancement in the expressivist theory.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09375-8_28

Full citation:

Kristan, A. (2015)., In defense of the expressive conception of norms, in M. Araszkiewicz, P. Banaś, T. Gizbert-Studnicki & K. Płeszka (eds.), Problems of normativity, rules and rule-following, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 375-394.

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