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Agency and Deontic Logic

By John F. Horty

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2001
ISBN
0195134613, 9780195134612
Open Library ID
OL17005007M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2339730 bytes)
Edition
First Printing
Pages
205\205
Topic
Mathematics Logic
DPI
300
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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