Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems

✍ Scribed by Dov Gabbay, John Horty, Xavier Parent, Ron van der Meyden, Leendert van der Torre (eds.)

• Publisher: College Publications
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 648
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems presents a detailed overview of the main lines of research on contemporary deontic logic and related topics. Although building on decades of previous work in the field, it is the first collection to take into account the significant changes in the landscape of deontic logic that have occurred in the past twenty years. These changes have resulted largely, though not entirely, from the interaction of deontic logic with a variety of other fields, including computer science, legal theory, organizational theory, economics, and linguistics. This first volume of the Handbook is divided into three parts, containing nine chapters in all, each written by leading experts in the field. The first part concentrates on historical foundations. The second examines topics of central interest in contemporary deontic logic. The third presents some new logical frameworks that have now become part of the mainstream literature. A second volume of the Handbook is currently in preparation, and there may be a third after that.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1 - BACKGROUND

Deontic logic: a historical survey and introduction (R. Hilpinen and P. McNamara)
Imperatives logic and its problems (J. Hansen)

Part 2 - CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS

The varieties of permissions (S.O. Hansson)
Prima facie norms, normative conflicts and dilemmas (L. Goble)
The theory of normative positions (M. Sergot)
Constitutive norms and counts as conditionals (D. Grossi and A. Jones)

Part 3 - NEW FRAMEWORKS

Alternative semantics for deontic logic (S.O. Hansson)
Input/output logic (X. Parent and L. van der Torre)
The theory of joining systems (L. Lindahl and J. Odelstad)