Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (7)

Theory of Imperatives from Different Points of View (2)

series: Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science at Warsaw University (7)

Edited by Anna Brożek, Jacek Jadacki & Berislav Žarnić

ISBN 978-83-7507-205-1
B5, 185 p. (12 figures, Index of Names)

CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. hab. Anna Brożek – Department of Logical Semiotics, Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University

Prof. dr. hab. Bartosz Brożek – Department of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagellonian University & Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr. Aleksandra Horecka – Department of Logical Semiotics, Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University

Prof. tit. dr. hab. Jacek Jadacki – Department of Logical Semiotics, Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University

Dr. Fengkui Ju – Department of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University

Dr. Piotr Kulicki – Department of Logic, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Mgr Natalia Miklaszewska – Department of Logical Semiotics, Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University

Mgr Jakub Bazyli Motrenko – Department of Methodology of Sociological Research, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University

Dr. Robert Trypuz – Department of Logic, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Dr. hab. Maciej Witek – Institute of Philosophy, University of Szczecin

Prof. Tomoyuki Yamada – Research Group of Philosophy, Hokkaido University

Dr. hab. Wojciech Załuski – Department of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagellonian University

Prof. dr. Berislav Žarnić – Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split

The previous volume of the series Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science at Warsaw University – entitled Imperatives from Different Points of View – was the first result of the projectTheory of Imperatives and Its Applications realized by the group composed by Anna Brożek, Jacek Jadacki and Berislav Žarnić. The project was supported by the Foundation for Polish Science within the program Homing Plus. One of the most important points of this project was the International Symposium Imperatives in Theory and Practice which took place in Warsaw, on the 18th and 19th May, 2012. The symposium was the meeting of many specialists in the domain of the theory of imperatives – from China, Croatia, Japan, Poland and The United States.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Berislav Žarnić, Logical Root of Linguistic Commitment

Jacek Jadacki, Witwicki’s Square

Tomoyuki Yamada, On the Very Idea of Imperative Inference

Fengkui Ju, Semantics of Sentences in Mixed Moods of Indicative and Imperative

Piotr Kulicki & Robert Trypuz, Two Faces of Obligation

Bartosz Brożek, Types of Obligations

Anna Brożek, Functional Ambiguity of Imperatives

Anna Brożek, Logic of Prescriptions and Instruction

Aleksandra Horecka, Imperative Sentence as a Performative Sentence, which Refers to the Optative State of Affairs

Jakub Bazyli Motrenko, The Concept of Praxiological Directive

Maciej Witek, How to Establish Authority with Words: Imperative Utterances and Presupposition Accommodation

Wojciech Załuski, Remarks on the Lexical Order of Rawls’s Two Principles of Justice

Natalia Miklaszewska, Acts of Will as Convictions

Anna Brożek, Imperatives in the Gospel

Index of Names