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, 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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Actors, actions, and initiative in normative system specification [PDF]
, 1993 The logic of norms, called deontic logic, has been used to specify normative constraints for information systems. For example, one can specify in deontic logic the constraints that a book borrowed from a library should be returned within three weeks, and
D.T. Sannella +19 more
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An ethical case against “responsible” gambling advertising: A UK context‐based, semiotic perspective
Business and Society Review, Volume 130, Issue 4, Page 578-616, Winter 2025.Abstract Gambling advertising has hardly been subjected to moral scrutiny, and ethical evaluation is long overdue. In this paper, I put “responsible gambling” messages of UK marketing campaigns purporting efforts by the gambling industry to encourage safer gambling to ethical scrutiny.
Glauco De Vita
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2025.ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer +2 more
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Supererogation and the Limits of Moral Obligations. Guest Editor’s Preface [PDF]
, 2017 Do moral obligations include all the good that can be possibly achieved? Does every instance of the good always entail obligatory performance?
Grigoletto, Simone
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Automated Reasoning in Normative Detachment Structures with Ideal Conditions
, 2018 Systems of deontic logic suffer either from being too expressive and therefore hard to mechanize, or from being too simple to capture relevant aspects of normative reasoning.
Libal, Tomer, Pascucci, Matteo
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Dealing with contract violations: Formalism and domain specific language [PDF]
, 2005 This paper presents a formal system for reasoning about violations of obligations in contracts. The system is based on the formalism for the representation of contrary-to-duty obligations.
Governatori, Guido, Milosevic, Zoran
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Institutions, in time: Designing feedback pathways for shared infrastructure transitions
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 654-680, August 2025.Abstract Electric utilities, challenged by a rapidly unfolding energy transition, use many informal institutions to bridge across technologies and sectors. Little is known, however, about how electric utility systems and other polycentric systems' institutions‐in‐use vary and evolve over time.
Matthew Grimley +6 more
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Representing Business Contracts in RuleML [PDF]
, 2005 This paper presents an approach for the specification and implementation of translating contracts from a human-oriented form into an executable representation for monitoring. This will be done in the setting of RuleML.
Antoniou G. +4 more
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The virtues of limits and environmental sustainability in healthcare
Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 6, Page 576-583, July 2025.Abstract The spectre of human‐induced climate change has drawn attention to the need to discover new, environmentally sustainable approaches to healthcare. This article draws upon David McPherson's The Virtues of Limits (2021) to develop a virtue ethics for sustainability in healthcare.
Xavier Symons
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