Defeasible Deontic Logic

✍ Scribed by Donald Nute, Xiaochang Yu (auth.), Donald Nute (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: Synthese Library 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Relevant to philosophy, law, management, and artificial intelligence, these papers explore the applicability of nonmonotonic or defeasible logic to normative reasoning. The resulting systems purport to solve well-known deontic paradoxes and to provide a better treatment than classical deontic logic does of prima facie obligation, conditional obligation, and priorities of normative principles.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Nonmonotonic Foundations for Deontic Logic....Pages 17-44
Deontic Logics of Defeasibility....Pages 45-57
Systematic Frame Constants in Defeasible Deontic Logic....Pages 59-77
The Many Faces of Defeasibility in Defeasible Deontic Logic....Pages 79-121
Deontic Logic Viewed as Defeasible Reasoning....Pages 123-137
Reasons to Think and Act....Pages 139-158
Common Sense Obligation....Pages 159-203
Defeasible Reasoning and Moral Dilemmas....Pages 205-222
Dyadic Deontic Logic and Contrary-to-Duty Obligations....Pages 223-262
Defeasible Reasoning with Legal Rules....Pages 263-286
Apparent Obligation....Pages 287-315
A New Approach to Contrary-to-Duty Obligations....Pages 317-344
Alchourrón and von Wright on Conflict Among Norms....Pages 345-351
Back Matter....Pages 353-358

✦ Subjects

Logic; Ethics; Philosophy of Law; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Operation Research/Decision Theory