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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
doaj  

Computer Science and Metaphysics: A Cross-Fertilization

open access: yes, 2019
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
core   +1 more source

Deontic Paradoxes in Library Lending Regulations: A Case Study in Flint

open access: yes, 2022
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.
openaire   +2 more sources

How to be indifferent

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 317-334, June 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The epistemic and the deontic preface paradox

open access: yesThe Philosophical Quarterly
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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Criteria of Validity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 557-584, May 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Dealing with the hypothetical in contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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
core  

Actualism, Possibilism, and the Nature of Consequentialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
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
core  

OWL-POLAR : A Framework for Semantic Policy Representation and Reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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Beautement   +23 more
core   +1 more source

The Freedom of Future People

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 197-214, Spring 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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