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Where Responsibility Takes You

Logics of Agency, Counterfactuals, and Norms

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  1. Ilaria Canavotto

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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  • Ph.D. dissertation of Ilaria Canavotto

  • Winner of the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in 2021

  • Combines modal logics of agency, counterfactuals, and norms to study causal responsibility

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 13228)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ilaria Canavotto
    Pages 1-4

  3. Background on STIT and Related Logics

    • Ilaria Canavotto
    Pages 5-29

  4. Agency and Counterfactuals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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  5. Norms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 185-212
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About this book

This book presents the Ph.D. dissertation of Ilaria Canavotto. The thesis won the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in 2021 for outstanding dissertations in the fields of logic, language, and information. It combines modal logics of agency, counterfactuals, and norms in order to study the reasoning underlying ascriptions of causal responsibility, the responsibility an agent is subject to because of the states of affairs they have brought about. Ascriptions of causal responsibility involve both causal reasoning and normative reasoning. In order to provide a logical analysis of these components, the dissertation brings together two mainstream logics of actions, STIT (seeing to it that) logic and Propositional Dynamic Logic, and extends them with an analysis of causality, a Lewis-Stalnaker style analysis of counterfactuals, subject matter semantics, and deontic logic. The author uses the resulting logics to investigate a number of philosophical issues underlying ascriptions of causal responsibility and technical issues emerging from the unification of the above-mentioned formal frameworks.
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Keywords

  • Deontic Logic
  • Logics of Agency
  • STIT Logic
  • Dynamic Logics
  • Logics for Multiagent Systems
  • Logic of Imagination
  • Counterfactuals
  • Causal Responsibility
  • Deontic Conflict
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Ilaria Canavotto

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Where Responsibility Takes You

  • Book Subtitle: Logics of Agency, Counterfactuals, and Norms

  • Authors: Ilaria Canavotto

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17111-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17110-9Published: 05 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17111-6Published: 04 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Logic

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