Defeasible Deontic Logic
By: edited by Donald Nute
Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science -- 263; Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science -- 263
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9789048148745; 9789401588515
Subjects: Philosophy (General); Operations research; Logic; Ethics; Philosophy of law; Artificial intelligence
Description: Relevant to philosophy, law, management, and artificial intelligence, these papers explore the applicability of nonmonotonic or defeasible logic to normative reasoning. The resulting systems purport to solve well-known deontic paradoxes and to provide a better treatment than classical deontic logic does of prima facie obligation, conditional obligation, and priorities of normative principles.
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