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ecap12th.bsky.social
Keynote on Philosophy of Language: Luca Incurvati
(University of Amsterdam)

“Directives and deontics”

#ECAP12
August 28, 2026 at 8:28 AM
hey-its-qalsy.bsky.social
what's the ethics meta. we still doin' deontics wavedashing or not really
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
They worked on theory of motivation, on deontics etc., which are relevant for ethics, but not on ethics directly.
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March 5, 2026 at 12:18 AM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
On a separate note, I just read #FranzKafka's Das Urteil (The Judgement), 1913. An amazing and powerful read, especially if you —like me— like unreliable narrators, reflections on estrangement and on deontics.
#booksky #books
October 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
joshuaraclaw.com
“Epistemics and deontics in ‘a little birdie told me’-prefaced utterances”
April 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
pirsabel.bsky.social
just wait till i get into deontics 😈
July 26, 2026 at 8:31 PM
danhon.com
lol
A game of outlier with the following words Tronc Chelates Cutaneous Deontics Lentic Polts
August 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
Very interesting source on conflicting obligations and suspension of commands. #deontics
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Jul 9
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
July 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
A former student asked me about titles on Mīmāṃsā epistemology, philosophy of language and deontics, and also a translation of the Śābarabhāṣya:

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October 24, 2024 at 2:48 PM
minnaf.bsky.social
Had a great first day at #ICCA2026! Really interesting and useful workshop about deontics w/ Melissa Stevanovic & @drsimonmagnusson.bsky.social

Extra fun for me comes from being back at a North American university campus after so many years. Brings back so many fond memories from my time at UCLA ❤️
June 23, 2026 at 11:40 PM
rychappell.bsky.social
My latest post argues against framing ethics in terms of axiology and deontics. Instead: first ask what, in theory, we should want (the telic question); and then how, in practice, to pursue it (the decision-theoretic question). www.goodthoughts.blog/p/axiology-d...
Axiology, Deontics, and the Telic Question
A better framing of the normative landscape
www.goodthoughts.blog
December 7, 2024 at 12:58 AM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
9. soteriology and afterlife: working on the book on the Śaraṇāgatigadya and its fortune through Rāmānuja, Sudarśana, Periyavāccaṉ Piḷḷai, Veṅkaṭanātha
10. epistemology, linguistics: working on the co-edited books on Kumārila
11. deontics 2: planning to translate the whole siddhānta in Maṇḍana's VV
June 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
Main projects I am currently working on:
7. rethinking history of philosophy: finishing two books on Veṅkaṭanātha as the real 'inventor' of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta (incl. a transl. of SM)
8. deontics: finishing the book on Maṇḍana's Discernment about Commands (incl. a transl. of VV chapt 11)
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June 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
ivanbrown-1577.bsky.social
This data has some fascinating orientation to categories, epistemics & deontics, not to mention some L2 learning through interaction.
Gotta press through the last 2 minutes…
January 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
In case you are in the NY area next Friday (March 7), I will be talking on Mīmāṃsā deontics:

universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/comp....
Comparative Philosophy | Welcome to The Columbia University Seminars
universityseminars.columbia.edu
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
alancolquhoun.bsky.social
Harris’s misadventure in deontics is a cautionary tale:

naive scientism cannot replace rigorous moral philosophy

The empirical nature of 'wellbeing', while valuable in certain contexts, cannot bear the weight of moral obligations

Reducing morality to science is not progress but a setback
January 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
I am currently in Cagliari, Sardinia, teaching about Mīmāṃsā and Dharmaśāstra deontics, but also discussing about the historical role of Mīmāṃsā (did Śabara still know about the initial significance of Brāhmaṇa rituals? Did Kātyāyana focus on verbs more than Pāṇini because of Mīmāṃsā ideas?)
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Jugendstil building with a tree covered in lilac blossoms (Cagliari, Sardinia) The "Sella del diavolo" and the sea in front of it, Cagliari (Sardinia)
May 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ckunzelman.bsky.social
i gotta admit i had no idea there was a social science subfield of deontics. you learn something new every day
August 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
The program for the next #DEON conference in Vienna (30.6--4.7) is out!

sites.google.com/view/deon-20...
#Deontics #DeonticLogic
DEON 2025 - Schedule
Tuesday, July 01
sites.google.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
More on Mīmāṃsā deontics: I am afraid I have to refer to the work of the project I have been part of (mimamsa.logic.at).

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October 24, 2024 at 2:57 PM
lansi-radboud.bsky.social
🍁 Marlou Rasenberg is presenting ‘Directives and concerted action in kayak rescue operations’ as part of the panel ‘Getting others to do things now: Deontics in time-critical contexts’ (Sun, June 28).

🧵 7/10
June 19, 2026 at 9:17 AM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
Call for papers for the next DEON conference in Vienna (June 30--July 3) on deontics, normativity, argumentation, epistemic reasoning…

sites.google.com/view/deon-20...
DEON 2025 - Call for Papers
About the DEON conference series The biennial International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON) conference series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the formal st...
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January 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
elisafreschi.bsky.social
Permissions in #Mīmāṃsā #deontics are not as ambiguous as in von Wright 1951 or in common parlance, since they denote only exceptions to previous prohibitions or negative obligations and are always better-not permissions.
#SanskritPhilosophy #Philosophy
www.academia.edu/129449928/M%...
Mīmāṃsā on 'better-not' Permissions
The traditional definition of permission as the dual of obligation oversimplifies its many applications, often yielding undesirable consequences. Recent literature recognizes the need to distinguish v...
https://www.academia.edu/129449928/Mīmāṃsā_on_better_not_Permissions
May 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
dollyangelic.bsky.social
i've only skimmed this so far but it looks really interesting. comments on things i've raised in the past regarding EMCA's relation to autism that need addressing. but i saw this endnote (first pic) and would like to use it as a prompt to re-up my own EMCA work on autism (the other three pics).
screenshot of the abstract of my paper in Disability Studies Quarterly. Text reads: "Autism, Autonomy, and Touch Avoidance Abstract Touch is an important component of many social experiences for many people. Autistic children commonly avoid social touch more than non-autistic peers. It is generally thought that this is due to autistic individuals experiencing hyper- or hyposensitivity of touch. While this is undoubtedly the case at least some of the time, studies of touch and autism have often involved decontextualised experimental settings or post-hoc reports on touch by autistic people or their common social interactants (i.e., parents). As such, there is very little research that looks at social touch in interactions involving autistic people and studies how it naturally occurs and how it is managed in the moment. Using multimodal Conversation Analysis, I analyse a collection of cases of social touch in the form of parents' cuddles or embraces with their autistic children. I demonstrate here what these cuddles can look like, how they can unfold over time with both autistic children and their parents mutually participate in building intimate sensorial moments. I also show more problematic moments where the child resists, abandons, or misunderstands a cuddle from their parent (or attempt to secure one) demonstrating that, in these cases, the trouble for the autistic children was not touch sensitivity but the prioritisation of courses of action that social touch would impede. As such the children display that the social touch is avoided or negatively evaluated due to its social nature, not its physical/sensational one. In demonstrating this I argue that not everything that might look like a sign of sensory difference is one. Keywords: Autism, Conversation Analysis, Touch, Embodiment, Action" screenshot of the name and abstract of my paper in Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. the title is "Autistic children's explanations of their own behavior". Text reads: "Abstract Purpose: This article reconceptualizes theory of mind (ToM) and perspective-taking as a practical accomplishment in social interaction, and analyzes how, and when, autistic children produce explanations of their behavior in ways that address how other people do, or may, understand it. Method: Three families with autistic children collected video recordings of themselves interacting at home. From 5 hours of video, a collection of 45 instances of accounts produced by autistic children was made, transcribed, and subjected to conversation analysis. Results: Accounts occurred in both initiating and responsive turns. Accounts produced in initiating turns addressed the potential characterizations of this and themselves their interlocutors might make. Their accounts in second position addressed actual characterizations in interlocutors’ preceding turns. As well, two of the children produced accounts which constructed their behavior as the result of internal causes. Discussion and conclusion: These analyses demonstrate the children's practical reasoning about how other people observe, recognize, and understand their behavior. Despite autism being linked to difficulties with ToM and perspective-taking, these autistic children manage perspective-taking through the provision of accounts in multiple sequential positions. These findings challenge the emphasis on ToM deficit based explanations of autism, while suggesting a stronger research focus on local, situated perspective-taking in social interaction." screenshot of the abstract for my paper in Research on Children and Social Interaction. The title is "Deontics at Bedtime". Text reads: "Abstract Directive trajectories are common in parent–child talk as parents attempt to engage their children in household activities. Previous research on families with autistic children has reported that parents have difficulty engaging their children in household activities. The current study analyses the strategies a parent utilizes in negotiating an activity contract with their autistic child. The analyses show that the parent negotiates stances towards autonomy, category-membership-tied activities and social obligations, as well as used embodied conduct. The analyses also show how the child is sensitive to these strategies and actively participates in the directive trajectory. The findings show that both parent and child are active co-constructors of the social relationship in directive trajectories and that the child can strategically counter the variety of directive resources the parent uses."
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
edward-reynolds.bsky.social
Deontics.
ckunzelman.bsky.social cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Aug 3
a second common comment is: the piece critiques XYZ field of study for not engaging in ABC argument, but actually what the piece is doing is obliterating many years of research on this exact thing because somehow you did not find it or engage deeper than the biggest sources in the subfield
August 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM