Title: Discussion of Cariani 2013: `Ought’ and Resolution Semantics
Date and time: Monday November 6, 1-2pm
Location: 7th Floor Seminar room
Abstract:
I motivate and characterize an intensional semantics for ought on which
it does not behave as a universal quantifier over possibilities. My motivational
argument centers on taking at face value some standard challenges to the
quantificational semantics, especially to the idea that ought-sentences satisfy
the principle of Inheritance. I argue that standard pragmatic approaches to
these puzzles are either not sufficiently detailed or unconvincing.The discussion will be led by David.