Deontic Logic, Agency and Normative Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. From the Fundamental Legal Conceptions of Hohfeld to Legal Relations: Refining the Enrichment of Solely Deontic Legal Relations

   • Layman E. Allen

   Pages 1-26

3. Towards a Computational Treatment of Deontic Defeasibility

   • Alberto Artosi, Guido Governatori, Giovanni Sartor

   Pages 27-46

4. Doing As We Ought: Towards A Logic of Simply Dischargeable Obligations

   • Mark A. Brown

   Pages 47-65

5. A deontic logic for reasoning about confidentiality

   • Frédéric Cuppens, Robert Demolombe

   Pages 66-79

6. A Modal Approach to Intentions, Commitments and Obligations: Intention plus Commitment yields Obligation

   • F. Dignum, J.-J. Ch. Meyer, R. J. Wieringa, R. Kuiper

   Pages 80-97

7. Combining Agency and Obligation (Preliminary Version)

   • John F. Horty

   Pages 98-122

8. The Logic of Normative Systems

   • Arnold A. Johanson

   Pages 123-133

9. Getting Personal Some Notes on the Relationship Between Personal and Impersonal Obligation

   • Christen Krogh, Henning Herrestad

   Pages 134-153

10. Must I Do What I Ought? (or Will the Least I Can Do Do?)

    • Paul McNamara

    Pages 154-173

11. Defeasible Reasoning with Legal Rules

    • Lambèr Royakkers, Frank Dignum

    Pages 174-193

12. Indirect Action, Influence and Responsibility

    • Filipe Santos, José Carmo

    Pages 194-215

13. How to Combine Ordering and Minimizing in a Deontic Logic based on Preferences

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

    Pages 216-232

14. Back Matter

    Pages 233-235

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This volume presents a variety of papers bearing on the relation between deontic logics, logics of action, and normative systems, i.e. systems of or about interacting agents (computers, human beings, corporations, etc.) whose behaviour is subject to ideal constraints that may not always be fulfilled in practice. The papers range from theoretical studies of the logical and conceptual tools needed, to studies of various applications. The set of papers collected in this book should be of interest to investigators working in a variety of fields, from philosophy, logic and legal theory to artificial intelligence, computer and management sciences, since it covers topics ranging from theoretical research on foundational issues in deontic and action logics, defeasible reasoning, decision theory, ethical theory, and legal theory, to research on a variety of issues relevant to applications connected with expert systems in the law, document specification, automation of defeasible reasoning, specification of responsibilities and powers in organizations, normative systems specification, confidentiality in database systems, and a host of other applications.

• artificial intelligence
• computer
• computer science
• deontic logic
• logic

• Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

  Mark A. Brown

• Department of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

  José Carmo

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