publication . Conference object . Part of book or chapter of book . 2010

Avoiding deontic explosion by contextually restricting aggregation

Name: Avoiding deontic explosion by contextually restricting aggregation
Keywords: Philosophy and Religion, defeasible deontic reasoning, adaptive logic, deontic explosion, non-adjunctive deontic logic, Conflict-tolerant deontic logic, LOGIC, MORAL DILEMMAS

Joke Meheus; Mathieu Beirlaen; Frederik Van De Putte;

Open Access English

Published: 01 Jan 2010

Publisher: Springer

Country: Belgium

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an adaptive logic for deontic conflicts, called P2.1(r), that is based on Goble's logic SDLaPe-a bimodal extension of Goble's logic P that invalidates aggregation for all prima facie obligations. The logic P2.1(r) has several advantages with respect to SDLaPe. For consistent sets of obligations it yields the same results as Standard Deontic Logic and for inconsistent sets of obligations, it validates aggregation "as much as possible". It thus leads to a richer consequence set than SDLaPe. The logic P2.1(r) avoids Goble's criticisms against other non-adjunctive systems of deontic logic. Moreover, it can handle all the 'toy examples' from...

doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14183-6_12

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free text keywords: Philosophy and Religion, defeasible deontic reasoning, adaptive logic, deontic explosion, non-adjunctive deontic logic, Conflict-tolerant deontic logic, LOGIC, MORAL DILEMMAS

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