Enriching deontic logic

Ilaria Canavotto*, Alessandro Giordani*

*Corresponding author

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Abstract

It is well known that systems of action deontic logic emerging from a standard analysis of permission in terms of possibility of doing an action without incurring in a violation of the law are subject to paradoxes. In general, paradoxes are acknowledged as such if we have intuitions telling us that things should be different. The aim of this paper is to introduce a paradox-free deontic action system by (i) identifying the basic intuitions leading to the emergence of the paradoxes and (ii) exploiting these intuitions in order to develop a consistent deontic framework, where it can be shown why some phenomena seem to be paradoxical and why they are not so if interpreted in a correct way.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-23
Number of pages23
JournalJournal of Logic and Computation
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Action deontic logic
  • contrary to duty obligation
  • ought-to-be logic
  • ought-to-do logic

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