Deontic Logic and the Role of Freedom in Moral Deliberation

Abstract

I want to present a model of deontic logic that relates oughts and choices to alternative possible futures, or scenarios. After presenting the model I’ll try to show how it can be related to some interesting twists that deliberative reasoning can take. What I will do is rough and very tentative, but maybe it suggests that deontic logic can be related to some interesting questions of moral philosophy.

This is a preliminary draft, without references and other baggage, intended only for presentation as a talk. Written in 1976. Presented at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association in 1977.