New Studies in Deontic Logic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Deontic logic, the Logic of Action, and Deontic Paradoxes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. On the Logic of Norms and Actions

      • Georg Henrik Von Wright

      Pages 3-35

   3. The Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: The Simplest Solution to all of them in one Fell Swoop

      • Hector-Neri Castañeda

      Pages 37-85

   4. Quantificational Reefs in Deontic Waters

      • David Makinson

      Pages 87-91

3. Norms and Conflicts of Norms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. The Expressive Conception of Norms

      • Carlos E. Alchourrón, Eugenio Bulygin

      Pages 95-124

   3. Hierarchies of Regulations and their Logic

      • Carlos E. Alchourrón, David Makinson

      Pages 125-148

   4. Non - Kripkean Deontic Logic

      • Peter K. Schotch, Raymond E. Jennings

      Pages 149-162

4. Deontic Logic and Tense Logic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Deontic Logic as Founded on Tense Logic

      • Richmond H. Thomason

      Pages 165-176

   3. Deontic Logic and the Role of Freedom in Moral Deliberation

      • Richmond H. Thomason

      Pages 177-186

   4. Some Theorems about a “Tree” System of Deontic Tense Logic

      • Lennart Åqvist, Jaap Hoepelman

      Pages 187-221

5. History of Deontic Logic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. The Emergence of Deontic Logic in the Fourteenth Century

      • Simo Knuuttila

      Pages 225-248

6. Back Matter

   Pages 249-262

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The present volume is a sequel to Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht 1971): its purpose is to offer a view of some of the main directions of research in contemporary deontic logic. Most of the articles included in Introductory and Systematic Readings represent what may be called the standard modal approach to deontic logic, in which de on tic logic is treated as a branch of modal logic, and the normative concepts of obligation, permission and prohibition are regarded as analogous to the "alethic" modalities necessity, possibility and impossibility. As Simo Knuuttila shows in his contribution to the present volume, this approach goes back to late medieval philosophy. Several 14th century philosophers observed the analogies between deontic and alethic modalities and discussed the deontic interpretations of various laws of modal logic. In contemporary deontic logic the modal approach was revived by G. H. von Wright's classic paper 'Deontic Logic' (1951). Certain analogies between deontic and alethic modalities are obvious and uncontroversial, but the standard approach has often been criticized on the ground that it exaggerates the analogies and tends to ignore those features of normative concepts which distinguish them from other modalities.

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