New studies in deontic logic
Subtitle: norms, actions, and the foundations of ethics
By: edited by Risto Hilpinen.
Contributors: Hilpinen, Risto.
Series: Synthese library ; v. 152
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Dordrecht, Holland; Boston; Hingham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Deontic logic -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: On the logic of norms and actions / Georg Henrik von Wright; title: The paradoxes of deontic logic / Hector-Neri Castañeda; title: Quantificational reefs in deontic waters / David Makinson; title: The expressive conception of norms / Carlos E. Alchourrön and Eugenio Bulygin; title: Hierarchies of regulations and their logic / Carlos E. Alchourrön and David Makinson; title: Non-kripkean deontic logic / Peter K. Schotch and Raymond E. Jennings; title: Deontic logic as founded on tense logic / Richmond H. Thomason; title: Deontic logic and the role of freedom in moral deliberation / Richmond H. Thomason; title: Some theorems about a "tree" system of deontic tense logic / Lennart Aqvist and Jaap Hoepelman; title: The emergence of deontic logic in the fourteenth century / Simo Knuuttila.