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This chapter reports on our literature study in moral philosophy and psychology for choosing conceptual viewpoints close to LP-based reasoning. These viewpoints fall into three moral facets tackled in this book. First, we study moral permissibility, taking into account the Doctrines of Double Effect, Triple Effect, and Scanlonian contractualism. Second, we look into the dual-process model that stresses the interaction between deliberative and reactive processes in delivering moral decisions. Finally, we discuss the role of counterfactual thinking in moral reasoning.
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Pereira, L.M., Saptawijaya, A. (2016). Significant Moral Facets Amenable to Logic Programming. In: Programming Machine Ethics. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29354-7_3
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