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Defeasible Deontic Logic

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Donald Nute

    1. The University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 263)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    • Donald Nute, Xiaochang Yu
    Pages 1-16

  3. Nonmonotonic Foundations for Deontic Logic

    • John F. Horty
    Pages 17-44

  4. Deontic Logics of Defeasibility

    • Marvin Belzer, Barry Loewer
    Pages 45-57

  5. Systematic Frame Constants in Defeasible Deontic Logic

    • Lennart Åqvist
    Pages 59-77

  6. The Many Faces of Defeasibility in Defeasible Deontic Logic

    • Leendert W. N. van der Torre, Yao-Hua Tan
    Pages 79-121

  7. Deontic Logic Viewed as Defeasible Reasoning

    • Y. U. Ryu, R. M. Lee
    Pages 123-137

  8. Reasons to Think and Act

    • Michael Morreau
    Pages 139-158

  9. Common Sense Obligation

    • Nicholas Asher, Daniel Bonevac
    Pages 159-203

  10. Defeasible Reasoning and Moral Dilemmas

    • Robert C. Koons, T. K. Seung
    Pages 205-222

  11. Dyadic Deontic Logic and Contrary-to-Duty Obligations

    • Henry Prakken, Marek Sergot
    Pages 223-262

  12. Defeasible Reasoning with Legal Rules

    • Lambèr Royakkers, Frank Dignum
    Pages 263-286

  13. Apparent Obligation

    • Donald Nute
    Pages 287-315

  14. A New Approach to Contrary-to-Duty Obligations

    • José Carmo, Andrew J. I. Jones
    Pages 317-344

  15. Alchourrón and von Wright on Conflict Among Norms

    • R. P. Loui
    Pages 345-351

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 353-358
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Donald Nute

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Defeasible Deontic Logic

  • Editors: Donald Nute

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8851-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4630-2Published: 31 July 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4874-5Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8851-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 358

  • Topics: Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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