PP-2011-29: van Benthem, Johan and Grossi, Davide and Liu, Fenrong (2011) On the Two Faces of Deontics: Semantic Betterness and Syntactic Priority. [Report]
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This paper looks at deontic logic as resulting from both a
betterness ordering on states (i.e., a `deontic preference') and a priority
ordering on properties (i.e., a `law' explicitly representing a standard of
behavior). The correspondence between these two orderings oers a rich
perspective from which to look at deontic scenarios and puzzles, and in
particular at contrary-to-duties. The framework naturally lends itself to
describing dynamics involving both orderings, thereby providing a new
analysis of norm change as `betterness change'.
| Item Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Report Nr: | PP-2011-29 |
| Series Name: | Prepublication (PP) Series |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Deontic logic, preference logic, modal logic |
| Subjects: | Logic |
| Depositing User: | Johan van Benthem |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2016 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2016 14:37 |
| URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/433 |
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