Alexander Pruss's Blog

A normative power is supposed to be a power to directly change normative reality. We can, of course, indirectly change normative reality by...

The fact that a large animal is attacking me would give me both permission and reason to kill the animal. On the basis of cases like that, o...

It's interesting that even invalid commands typically result in permissions.  I am a civilian and I successfully impersonate your comman...

Disjunctions If I command you to do something, I thereby permit you to do it. But suppose I command you to do A or B or both. ...