An Introduction to Deontic Logic

An Introduction to Deontic Logic
Author: Daniel Rönnedal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Deontic logic
ISBN: 9781449916947

Deontic logic is a branch of logic that investigates normative concepts, systems of norms and normative reasoning. The formal languages of deontic logic include normative concepts that correspond to natural language notions such as ought, obligatory, permissible, forbidden and optional. The present book is an introduction to this branch of logic. Several basic deontic systems are described and some of their properties are explored. Every system is characterized both semantically using possible world semantics and axiomatically. The final chapter includes soundness and completeness results for every system. The focus of the study is formal, but some philosophical questions are also raised, in particular: What is the meaning of the word "ought" and other normative notions as they occur in ordinary and philosophical discussions? Several distinctions between different kinds of obligations are considered, for instance the distinctions between prima facie and all things considered obligations and between conditional and unconditional obligations.The book is aimed at people with no prior knowledge of deontic logic but with some acquaintance with classical logic including some set theory. It should interest anyone who wants to know more about this area.

Deontic Logic and Legal Systems

Deontic Logic and Legal Systems
Author: Pablo E. Navarro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521767393

"Logic and law have a long history in common, but the influence has been mostly one-sided, except perhaps in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., where disputes at the market place or in tribunals in Greece seem to have stimulated a lot of reflection among sophistic philosophers on such topics as language and truth. Most of the time it was logic that influenced legal thinking, but in the last 50 years logicians began to be interested in normative concepts and hence in law"--

Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems

Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems
Author: Dov Gabbay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781848901322

The Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems presents a detailed overview of the main lines of research on contemporary deontic logic and related topics. Although building on decades of previous work in the field, it is the first collection to take into account the significant changes in the landscape of deontic logic that have occurred in the past twenty years. These changes have resulted largely, though not entirely, from the interaction of deontic logic with a variety of other fields, including computer science, legal theory, organizational theory, economics, and linguistics. This first volume of the Handbook is divided into three parts, containing nine chapters in all, each written by leading experts in the field. The first part concentrates on historical foundations. The second examines topics of central interest in contemporary deontic logic. The third presents some new logical frameworks that have now become part of the mainstream literature. A second volume of the Handbook is currently in preparation, and there may be a third after that.

Introduction to Deontic Logic and Normative Systems

Introduction to Deontic Logic and Normative Systems
Author: Xavier Parent
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781848902695

Deontic logic deals with obligation, permission and related normative concepts. This textbook introduces three frameworks that have dominated the landscape of deontic logic: monadic deontic logic, dyadic deontic logic, and input/output logic. It describes their language, semantics, proof theory, and gives soundness and completeness theorems. The addition of exercises makes the book ideal for self-study or as a textbook in class. Deontic logic remains neutral on application issues. Over the years, it has been applied in a variety of fields, including philosophy, ethics, linguistics, computer science, and the law. This textbook will serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers wishing to gain a practical understanding of deontic logic for use in their work.

Extending Deontic Logic for the Formalisation of Legal Rules

Extending Deontic Logic for the Formalisation of Legal Rules
Author: Lambèr Royakkers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998-03-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780792349822

This book describes extensions of deontic logic. Deontic logic is a branch of philosophical logic involving reasoning with norms, obligations, prohibitions and permissions. The extensions concern the logical structure of legal rules and legal reasoning. Their function is to improve the representation of legal knowledge and enhance deontic logic through increased expressibility. The resulting formulas acquire new meanings, not expressible in standard deontic logic, which are subject to fresh interpretations. The author offers an extensive analysis of the representation of actors, to whom the norms are directed, and authorities who enact the norms. Moreover, a distinction is made between enactment and applicability. A modality of enactment can be used to express inconsistent enacted norms in a consistent way. An authority-hierarchy is introduced to filter out the applicable norms from the set of enacted norms. Some related philosophical questions will be discussed regarding the applications of formalisms that are intrinsic to practical science with respect to `consistency' and `universality'. The formalisms and applications considered here are relevant for law, philosophy and computer science, with a special focus on the improvement of legal expert systems and intelligent support for legal professionals.

Deontic Logic in Computer Science

Deontic Logic in Computer Science
Author: John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1993
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

A useful logic in which to specify normative system behaviour, deontic logic has a broad spectrum of possible applications within the field: from legal expert systems to natural language processing, database integrity to electronic contracting and the specification of fault-tolerant software.

Modal Logic

Modal Logic
Author: Brian F. Chellas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1980-02-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521295154

An introductory textbook on modal logic the logic of necessity and possibility.

Agency and Deontic Logic

Agency and Deontic Logic
Author: John F. Horty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2009
Genre: Agent (Philosophy)
ISBN: 0195391985

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 variousconditions 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.