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An Adaptive Normative Multi Agent System using Web 3.0 for e-Learning Platform

open access: yesOnline Academic Journal of Information Technology, 2013
The growing concern for education and innovative technologies has led to a new dimension of learning. The paper proposes a new framework NormATel using the concept of Normative Multi-Agent system, Activity Theory and e-Learning.
.ımran Ali Siddiqu   +3 more
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Context Collapse

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Context collapse occurs when the contents of distinct conversations mix, either by the flattening of multiple contexts together (fusion) or the leaking of one set's contents into another (fission). After critically surveying the nascent literature, this essay proposes a unified model of context collapse incorporating details from its origin in
A. G. Holdier
wiley   +1 more source

Reason-based Deontic Logic

open access: yes, 2021
This paper introduces a system of deontic logic based on the idea that obligations are grounded on reasons. A reason-based deontic system is worth considering for at least three reasons: it may shed light on the way in which obligations are generated; it
Giordani, Alessandro
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Free choice permission as resource-sensitive reasoning

open access: yesSemantics and Pragmatics, 2010
Free choice permission is a long-standing puzzle in deontic logic and in natural language semantics. It involves what appears to be a conjunctive use of "or": from "You may eat an apple or a pear", we can infer that "You may eat an apple" and that "You ...
Chris Barker
doaj   +1 more source

Normative Nihilism

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Normative nihilism is the more radical sibling of moral nihilism: while moral nihilists are nihilists only about the moral domain, normative nihilists are nihilists about all normativity. For example, normative nihilists have argued that there are no moral, prudential, epistemic, or instrumental reasons.
Lewis Williams
wiley   +1 more source

FIVE STEPS TO RESPONSIBILITY - DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2013v63p125

open access: yesRevista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2014
Responsibility has entered the academic discourse of logicians hardly more than few decades ago. I suggest a logical concept of responsibility which employs ideas both from a number of theories belonging to different branches of logic as well from other
Elena Lisanyuk
doaj   +4 more sources

Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 578-593, May 2026.
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

Applying the Agent-Deed-Consequence (ADC) Model to Smart City Ethics

open access: yesAlgorithms
Smart cities are an emerging technology that is receiving new ethical attention due to recent advancements in artificial intelligence. This paper provides an overview of smart city ethics while simultaneously performing novel theorization about the ...
Daniel Shussett, Veljko Dubljević
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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

An ASP Implementation of Defeasible Deontic Logic

open access: yes
We present a novel implementation of Defeasible Deontic Logic as an Answer Set Programming meta-program, and we evaluate the performance of the implementation against a recent set of ...
Guido Governatori
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