Deontics = Betterness + Priority

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • G. Governatori
  • G. Sartor
Book title Deontic Logic in Computer Science
Book subtitle 10th international conference, DEON 2010, Fiesole, Italy, July 7-9, 2010 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783642141829
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642141836
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event Deontic logic in computer science: 10th international conference, DEON 2010
Pages (from-to) 50-65
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This paper looks at deontic logic as resulting from both a betterness ordering on states (i.e., a ‘deontic preference’) and a priority ordering on properties (i.e., a ‘law’ explicitly representing a standard of behavior). The correspondence between these two orderings offers a rich perspective from which to look at deontic scenarios and puzzles, and in particular at contrary-to-duties. The framework naturally lends itself to describing dynamics involving both orderings, thereby providing a new analysis of norm change as ‘betterness change’.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14183-6_6
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