MoL-2015-16: Pasotti, Pietro (2015) Chisholm's Paradox in Action Deontic Logics. [Report]
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The thesis focuses on Chisholm's paradox and offers a philosophical comparative analysis using three logical frameworks in which the paradox can be formalised. Chapter 1 considers Standard Deontic Logic and tracks down the causes of its well-known inadequacies in copying with contrary-to-duty obligations to the back of expressive power concerning time, preference orders and action. Consequently in chapter 2 we follow J-J.Ch. Meyer in giving an action-based Propositional Dynamic Deontic Logic (PDeL) analysis of Chisholm's paradox. Finally, acknowledging that the PDeL analysis has many open issues, we move to the seeing-to-it-that (stit) framework exemplified by one of the main existing proposals from P. Bartha. Finally, we show that Bartha's solution is problematic and try to fix it by adopting a vairant of J. Broersen's temporal next-state stit. In this logic, under some assumptinos, many deontic paradoxes including Chisholm's paradox are avoided.
Item Type: | Report |
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Report Nr: | MoL-2015-16 |
Series Name: | Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series |
Year: | 2015 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | logic, language |
Subjects: | Logic |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2016 14:38 |
Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2016 14:38 |
URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/957 |
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