Deontics = Betterness + Priority
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| Publication date | 2010 |
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| Book title | Deontic Logic in Computer Science |
| Book subtitle | 10th international conference, DEON 2010, Fiesole, Italy, July 7-9, 2010 : proceedings |
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| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Event | Deontic logic in computer science: 10th international conference, DEON 2010 |
| Pages (from-to) | 50-65 |
| Publisher | Berlin: Springer |
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| Abstract | This paper looks at deontic logic as resulting from both a betterness ordering on states (i.e., a ‘deontic preference’) and a priority ordering on properties (i.e., a ‘law’ explicitly representing a standard of behavior). The correspondence between these two orderings offers a rich perspective from which to look at deontic scenarios and puzzles, and in particular at contrary-to-duties. The framework naturally lends itself to describing dynamics involving both orderings, thereby providing a new analysis of norm change as ‘betterness change’. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14183-6_6
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