Agency and deontic logic / John F. Horty.
John Horty places deontic logic (the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission) in a new setting - cast against the background of a recently developed logic of agency, as well as problems in moral philosophy of action.
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2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview
- Indeterminism and agency. Branching time ; Individual agency ; Individual ability ; Group agency and ability
- Ought to be. The standard theory ; A utilitarian theory ; The Meinong/Chisholm analysis ; Evaluating the analysis
- Ought to do. Dominance ; Dominance act utilitarianism ; A new deontic operator ; Independence
- Conditional oughts. Conditionally optimal actions ; A conditional ought operator ; Two patterns of argument ; Orthodox act utilitarianism
- Group oughts. Optimal group actions ; Individual and group act utilitarianism ; Deontic operators for group oughts ; Rule utilitarianism
- Strategic oughts. Strategies ; Strategies and choices ; Strategic dominance and optimality ; A strategic ought operator
- A Proofs of validities and propositions. Validities ; Propositions.