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Agency and Deontic Logic

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0195134613, 9780195134612, 9781423727514
Open Library ID
OL17005007M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10234284 bytes)
Edition
First Printing
Pages
208\205
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

John Horty effectively develops deontic logic (the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission) against the background of a formal theory of agency. He incorporates certain elements of decision theory to set out a new deontic account of what agents ought to do under various conditions over extended periods of time. Offering a conceptual rather than technical emphasis, Horty's framework allows a number of recent issues from moral theory to be set out clearly and discussed from a uniform point of view.

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