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A Paraconsistentist Approach to Chisholm's Paradox
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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Computer Science and Metaphysics: A Cross-Fertilization
Computational philosophy is the use of mechanized computational techniques to unearth philosophical insights that are either difficult or impossible to find using traditional philosophical methods.
Benzmüller, Christoph +2 more
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Deontic Paradoxes in Library Lending Regulations: A Case Study in Flint
Flint is a frame-based and action-centered language developed by Van Doesburg et al. to capture and compare different interpretations of sources of norms (e.g. laws or regulations). The aim of this research is to investigate whether Flint is susceptible to paradoxes that are known to occur in normative systems.
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Abstract According to the principle of indifference, when a set of possibilities is evidentially symmetric for you – when your evidence no more supports any one of the possibilities over any other – you're required to distribute your credences uniformly among them.
Sebastian Liu
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The epistemic and the deontic preface paradox
Abstract This paper generalizes the preface paradox beyond the conjunctive aggregation of beliefs and constructs an analogous paradox for deontic reasoning. The analysis of the deontic case suggests a systematic restriction of intuitive rules for reasoning with obligations.
Lina Maria Lissia, Jan Sprenger
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This article revisits the debate between inclusive and exclusive legal positivism, arguing that the question around which it is founded – about whether morality can function as a condition of legal validity – obscures a more basic and fundamental truth about the nature of law: that the norms composing a legal system's criteria of validity have a formal
Thomas Adams
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Dealing with the hypothetical in contracts [PDF]
The notion of a contract as an agreement regulating the behaviour of two (or more) parties has long been studied, with most work focusing on the interaction between the contract and the parties.
Computer Science Annual Workshop CSAW’12 +1 more
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Actualism, Possibilism, and the Nature of Consequentialism [PDF]
The actualism/possibilism debate in ethics is about whether counterfactuals of freedom concerning what an agent would freely do if they were in certain circumstances even partly determines that agent’s obligations.
Cohen, Yishai, Timmerman, Travis
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OWL-POLAR : A Framework for Semantic Policy Representation and Reasoning [PDF]
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Beautement +23 more
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ABSTRACT What happens to liberal political philosophy, if we consider not only the freedom of present but also future people? In this article, I explore the case for long‐term liberalism: freedom should be a central goal, and we should often be particularly concerned with effects on long‐term future distributions of freedom.
Andreas T. Schmidt
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