| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Overview -- Indeterminism and agency. Branching time ; Individual agency ; Individual ability ; Group agency and ability -- Ought to be. The standard theory ; A utilitarian theory ; The Meinong/Chisholm analysis ; Evaluating the analysis -- Ought to do. Dominance ; Dominance act utilitarianism ; A new deontic operator ; Independence -- Conditional oughts. Conditionally optimal actions ; A conditional ought operator ; Two patterns of argument ; Orthodox act utilitarianism -- Group oughts. Optimal group actions ; Individual and group act utilitarianism ; Deontic operators for group oughts ; Rule utilitarianism -- Strategic oughts. Strategies ; Strategies and choices ; Strategic dominance and optimality ; A strategic ought operator -- A Proofs of validities and propositions. Validities ; Propositions |
| Summary |
John Horty places deontic logic (the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission) in a new setting - cast against the background of a recently developed logic of agency, as well as problems in moral philosophy of action |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Deontic logic.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Deontic logic
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Deontische logica.
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Autonomie (algemeen)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195134612 |
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0195134613 |
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1423727517 |
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9781423727514 |
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9780199833269 |
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0199833265 |
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