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Situational Method Engineering: State-of-the-Art Review Open
The situational method engineering (SME) literature is surveyed and a synoptic evaluation presented in the context of formalizing and regularizing the conceptual framework and underpinning theory. Metamodels proposed for use in SME are eva…
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Regimes of Expectations: An Active Inference Model of Social Conformity and Human Decision Making Open
How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this question. We introduce the computational construct of 'deontic …
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Logic of Violations: A Gentzen System for Reasoning with Contrary-To-Duty Obligations Open
In this paper we present a Gentzen system for reasoning with contrary-to-duty obligations. The intuition behind the system is that a contrary-to-duty is a special kind of normative exception. The logical machinery to formalise this idea is…
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Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play Open
The notion of “deontic rights”—the capacity of an individual to determine action—is described as a tool to analyze human power plays in the turn‐by‐turn unfolding of social interaction. Drawing on various bodies of literature, the paper po…
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Assessing Answers: Action Ascription in Third Position Open
Although the adjacency pair is a basic unit of interactional structure, many sequences consist of three parts. This article is concerned with assessments used in third position to receive answers to inquiries. It argues that participants d…
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Deontic Justice and Organizational Neuroscience Open
According to deontic justice theory, individuals often feel principled moral obligations to uphold norms of justice. That is, standards of justice can be valued for their own sake, even apart from serving self-interested goals. While a gro…
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Theories of whistleblowing Open
“Whistleblowing” has entered the scholarly and the public debate as a way of describing the exposure by the member of an organization of episodes of corruption, fraud, or general abuses of power within the organization. We offer a critical…
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Saying and believing: the norm commonality assumption Open
One very popular assumption in the epistemological literature is that belief and assertion are governed by one and the same epistemic norm. This paper challenges this claim. Extant arguments in defence of the view are scrutinised and found…
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Orientations to epistemics and deontics in treatment discussions Open
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. An ideological shift to patient-centered health care raises questions about how, in the face of medical authority, patients can assert agency in interactions with doctors. This study uses conversation analysis to explo…
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On Automating the Doctrine of Double Effect Open
The doctrine of double effect (DDE) is a long-studied ethical principle that governs when actions that have both positive and negative effects are to be allowed. The goal in this paper is to automate DDE. We briefly present DDE, and use a …
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Authority and Gender: Flipping the F-Switch Open
The very rules of our language games contain mechanisms of disregard. Philosophy of language tends to treat speakers as peers with equal discursive authority, but this is rare in real, lived speech situations. This paper explores the mecha…
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On the Permissibility of Free-Riding on the Global Lingua Franca Open
English today seems to be emerging as a global lingua franca. And a global lingua franca would be a global public good. Characteristically, being non-excludable, public goods are susceptible to free-riding: absent targeted distributive pol…
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Grammar and social agency: The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements Open
Sentence and construction types generally have more than one pragmatic function. Impersonal deontic declaratives such as ‘it is necessary to X’ assert the existence of an obligation or necessity without tying it to any particular individua…
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Sahlqvist theory for impossible worlds Open
We extend unified correspondence theory to Kripke frames with impossible\nworlds and their associated regular modal logics. These are logics the modal\nconnectives of which are not required to be normal: only the weaker properties\nof addi…
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Truthmaker semantics for natural language: Attitude verbs, modals, and intensional transitive verbs Open
This paper gives an outline of truthmaker semantics for natural language against the background of standard possible-worlds semantics. It develops a truthmaker semantics for attitude reports and deontic modals based on an ontology of attit…
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Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists Open
I expand 'modal normativism', a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of 'metaphysical explanation'. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the norma…
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A temporal permission analysis and enforcement framework for Android Open
Permission-induced attacks, i.e., security breaches enabled by permission misuse, are among the most critical and frequent issues threatening the security of Android devices. By ignoring the temporal aspects of an attack during the analysi…
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Reference without anaphora: on agency through grammar Open
In this article, we investigate a puzzle for standard accounts of reference in natural language processing, psycholinguistics and pragmatics: occasions where, following an initial reference (e.g., the ice ), a subsequent reference is achie…
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English and Italian land contracts Open
Legal language has attracted increasing scholarly interest over the last three decades, and the importance of this field is constantly growing. The present chapter examines the textual and linguistic features of a type of legal text, contr…
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Reified Input/Output logic: Combining Input/Output logic and Reification to represent norms coming from existing legislation Open
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Moral outrage or mere possibility? An exploration of epistemic versus deontic stance in reading-to-write argumentation Open
Based on an analysis of 41 placement essays, this study explores the contrasting discourse requirements of two seemingly comparable essay topics, highlighting the construction of stance. While one prompt demanded primarily that students ma…
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Semantic approach to automating management of big data privacy policies Open
Ensuring privacy of Big Data managed on the cloud is critical to ensure consumer confidence. Cloud providers publish privacy policy documents outlining the steps they take to ensure data and consumer privacy. These documents are available …
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A deontic perspective on the collaborative, multimodal accomplishment of leadership Open
This article makes a case for investigating leadership from a micro-interactional perspective which integrates discursive, sequential and multimodal analytical layers. It thus builds on existing discursive leadership research by demonstrat…
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Developing a roadmap for the moral programming of smart technology Open
Smart technology is increasingly integrated in our ethical decision making. This raises questions as to how we should morally program technology. Deciding on moral programming depends on the moral intensity of the ethical issue. A moral in…
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Trust as a virtue in education Open
As social and political beings, we are able to flourish only if we collaborate with others. Trust, understood as a virtue, incorporates appropriate rational emotional dispositions such as compassion as well as action that is contextual, si…
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Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies Open
For several decades, the aid effectiveness movement has called for more robust, informed and independent impact evaluation of aid activities, but the prevalence and adoption of these practices remain unclear. This article seeks to understa…
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Why formal objections to the error theory fail Open
Many philosophers argue that the error theory should be rejected because it is incompatible with standard deontic logic and semantics. We argue that such formal objections to the theory fail. Our discussion has two upshots. First, it incre…
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Leaving Obligations Behind: Epistemic Incrementation in Preschool English Open
Does language development drive language change? A common account of language change attributes the regularity of certain patterns to children's learning biases. The present study examines these predictions for change-in-progress in the us…
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An Epistemic-Deontic-Axiologic (EDA) agent-based energy management system in office buildings Open
In the UK, buildings contribute about one third of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Space heating and cooling systems are among the biggest energy consumers in buildings. This research aims to develop a novel Building Energy Ma…
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Expressing Permission Open
This paper proposes a semantics for free choice permission that explains both the non-classical behavior of modals and disjunction in sentences used to grant permission, and their classical behavior under negation. It also explains why per…