Defeasible Deontic Logic
Description
This book explores the applicability of recent work in nonmonotonic logic to normative reasoning. Classical deontic logic is monotonic, meaning that any conclusion derivable from some set of premises remains derivable when new premises are added. But normative reasoning involves prima facie obligations, conditional obligations, and the precedence of one normative principle over another. An acceptable argument may be defeated by a new line of reasoning when new information activates competing normative principles. The failure of classical deontic logic to model these features leads to paradoxes, and moral theorists generally respond by ignoring deontic logic.
Keywords
PhilosophyLogicEthics & Moral PhilosophyReferenceComputersIntelligence (AI) & SemanticsBusiness & EconomicsOperations ResearchLawJurisprudence
1997Book
Author(s)Donald Nute
PublisherSpringer Science & Business Media
ISBN9780792346302
LanguageEnglish
