Defeasible Deontic Logic

By Donald Nute

Subjects: Ethics, Operations research, Philosophy (General), Reasoning, Duty, Artificial intelligence, Philosophy of law, Logic

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.