Agency and Deontic Logic

✍ Scribed by John F. Horty

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Книга Agency and Deontic Logic Agency and Deontic Logic Книги Психология, философия Автор: John F. Horty Год издания: 2001 Формат: pdf Издат.:Oxford University Press Страниц: 208 Размер: 9,3 ISBN: 0195134613 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:John Horty effectively develops deontic logic (the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission) against the background of a formal theory of agency. He incorporates certain elements of decision theory to set out a new deontic account of what agents ought to do under variousconditions over extended periods of time. Offering a conceptual rather than technical emphasis, Horty's framework allows a number of recent issues from moral theory to be set out clearly and discussed from a uniform point of view.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
1 Overview......Page 16
2.1.1 Frames and models......Page 19
2.1.2 Propositions......Page 23
2.2 Individual agency......Page 24
2.2.1 Agents and choices......Page 25
2.2.2 Stit operators......Page 27
2.2.3 Some logical considerations......Page 29
2.3 Individual ability......Page 32
2.3.1 Kenny's objections......Page 33
2.3.2 Brown's theory......Page 35
2.3.3 Refraining and ability......Page 38
2.4 Group agency and ability......Page 42
2.4.1 Group actions......Page 43
2.4.2 A group agency operator......Page 45
3.1 The standard theory......Page 47
3.2.1 General models......Page 49
3.2.2 Utilitarian models......Page 51
3.2.3 Logic of the utilitarian ought......Page 56
3.3.1 The analysis......Page 57
3.3.2 Some logical features......Page 60
3.4.1 Agency in the complement......Page 63
3.4.2 The gambling problem......Page 66
4.1 Dominance......Page 72
4.1.1 Ordering the propositions......Page 73
4.1.2 A sure-thing argument......Page 74
4.1.3 Ordering the actions......Page 79
4.2.1 Optimal actions......Page 82
4.2.2 The finite choice condition......Page 86
4.3.1 The definition......Page 87
4.3.2 Deontic logic and act utilitarianism......Page 90
4.3.3 Logic of the dominance ought......Page 91
4.4.1 Independence and conditionals......Page 94
4.4.2 Conditionals and sure-thing reasoning......Page 99
4.4.3 Refining the analysis......Page 102
5.1 Conditionally optimal actions......Page 109
5.2.1 The definition......Page 113
5.2.2 Some logical considerations......Page 114
5.3 Two patterns of argument......Page 117
5.3.1 The action argument......Page 119
5.3.2 The ought argument......Page 120
5.4.1 An example......Page 123
5.4.2 The definition......Page 127
5.4.3 An orthodox deontic operator......Page 131
6.1 Optimal group actions......Page 135
6.2 Individual and group act utilitarianism......Page 138
6.3.1 Definitions......Page 143
6.3.2 Some logical points......Page 144
6.4 Rule utilitarianism......Page 148
6.4.1 Formulating the theory......Page 149
6.4.2 Act and rule utilitarianism......Page 152
7.1 Strategies......Page 155
7.1.1 Basic ideas......Page 156
7.1.2 Limiting the range......Page 158
7.2.1 Agency......Page 161
7.2.2 Ability......Page 165
7.3.1 Dominance......Page 166
7.3.2 Optimality......Page 168
7.4.1 The definition......Page 170
7.4.2 Logical points......Page 171
7.4.3 Actualism and possibilism......Page 173
A.1 Validities......Page 178
A.2 Propositions......Page 182
Bibliography......Page 194
C......Page 201
H......Page 202
P......Page 203
T......Page 204
Z......Page 205