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On Automating the Doctrine of Double Effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The doctrine of double effect ($\mathcal{DDE}$) is a long-studied ethical principle that governs when actions that have both positive and negative effects are to be allowed. The goal in this paper is to automate $\mathcal{DDE}$.
Bringsjord, Selmer   +1 more
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Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each
Jonathan Parry
wiley   +1 more source

A Paraconsistentist Approach to Chisholm's Paradox

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2009
The Logics of Deontic (In)Consistency (LDI’s) can be considered as the deontic counterpart of the paraconsistent logics known as Logics of Formal (In)Consistency.
Marcelo Esteban Coniglio   +1 more
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A controlled language for the specification of contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Controlled natural languages have been used to enable the direct translation from natural language specifications into a formal description. In this paper we make a case for such an approach to write contracts, and translating into a temporal deontic ...
Pace, Gordon J.   +2 more
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Mapping engineering students' conceptions of responsibility in challenge‐based learning: The agency gap

open access: yesJournal of Engineering Education, Volume 115, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Background The complexity of engineering practice highlights the need to make students aware of their responsibility as future professionals. However, integrating this concept into the engineering curricula remains a challenge. Purpose The study explores how engineering students conceptualize their responsibilities as future professionals and ...
Diana Adela Martin, Gunter Bombaerts
wiley   +1 more source

On Quantified Modal Theorem Proving for Modeling Ethics [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2019
In the last decade, formal logics have been used to model a wide range of ethical theories and principles with the goal of using these models within autonomous systems.
Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risto Hilpinen (ed.), Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
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Álvaro Rodríguez Tirado
doaj   +1 more source

Deontic ‘cocktail’ according to E. Mally’s receipt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 1926, Ernst Mally, an Austrian logician, has introduced a system of deontic logic in which he has proposed three fundamental distinctions which proved to be important in the context of the further development of the logic of norms.
Elena, Lisanyuk
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Thou Shalt is not You Will

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we discuss some reasons why temporal logic might not be suitable to model real life norms. To show this, we present a novel deontic logic contrary-to-duty/derived permission paradox based on the interaction of obligations, permissions and ...
Calardo E.   +6 more
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Formalising responsibility modelling for automatic analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Modelling the structure of social-technical systems as a basis for informing software system design is a difficult compromise. Formal methods struggle to capture the scale and complexity of the heterogeneous organisations that use technical systems ...
Simpson, Robert, Storer, Tim
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