04971nam 22007334a 450 991045614900332120210426213305.00-19-539198-51-280-47321-597866104732120-19-803076-21-4237-2751-7(CKB)111087313295134(EBL)3051908(OCoLC)191933494(SSID)ssj0001142241(PQKBManifestationID)12528784(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001142241(PQKBWorkID)11097940(PQKB)10529055(SSID)ssj0000085260(PQKBManifestationID)11126070(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085260(PQKBWorkID)10007406(PQKB)10937847(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075641(MiAaPQ)EBC3051908(Au-PeEL)EBL3051908(CaPaEBR)ebr10086978(CaONFJC)MIL47321(EXLCZ)9911108731329513420000112d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgency and deontic logic[electronic resource] /John F. HortyOxford [England] ;New York Oxford University Press20011 online resource (205 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-983326-5 0-19-513461-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187) and index.""Contents""; ""1 Overview""; ""2 Indeterminism and agency""; ""2.1 Branching time""; ""2.1.1 Frames and models""; ""2.1.2 Propositions""; ""2.2 Individual agency""; ""2.2.1 Agents and choices""; ""2.2.2 Stit operators""; ""2.2.3 Some logical considerations""; ""2.3 Individual ability""; ""2.3.1 Kenny's objections""; ""2.3.2 Brown's theory""; ""2.3.3 Refraining and ability""; ""2.4 Group agency and ability""; ""2.4.1 Group actions""; ""2.4.2 A group agency operator""; ""3 Ought to be""; ""3.1 The standard theory""; ""3.2 A utilitarian theory""; ""3.2.1 General models""""3.2.2 Utilitarian models""""3.2.3 Logic of the utilitarian ought""; ""3.3 The Meinong/Chisholm analysis""; ""3.3.1 The analysis""; ""3.3.2 Some logical features""; ""3.4 Evaluating the analysis""; ""3.4.1 Agency in the complement""; ""3.4.2 The gambling problem""; ""4 Ought to do""; ""4.1 Dominance""; ""4.1.1 Ordering the propositions""; ""4.1.2 A sure-thing argument""; ""4.1.3 Ordering the actions""; ""4.2 Dominance act utilitarianism""; ""4.2.1 Optimal actions""; ""4.2.2 The finite choice condition""; ""4.3 A new deontic operator""; ""4.3.1 The definition""""4.3.2 Deontic logic and act utilitarianism""""4.3.3 Logic of the dominance ought""; ""4.4 Independence""; ""4.4.1 Independence and conditionals""; ""4.4.2 Conditionals and sure-thing reasoning""; ""4.4.3 Refining the analysis""; ""5 Conditional oughts""; ""5.1 Conditionally optimal actions""; ""5.2 A conditional ought operator""; ""5.2.1 The definition""; ""5.2.2 Some logical considerations""; ""5.3 Two patterns of argument""; ""5.3.1 The action argument""; ""5.3.2 The ought argument""; ""5.4 Orthodox act utilitarianism""; ""5.4.1 An example""; ""5.4.2 The definition""""5.4.3 An orthodox deontic operator""""6 Group oughts""; ""6.1 Optimal group actions""; ""6.2 Individual and group act utilitarianism""; ""6.3 Deontic operators for group oughts""; ""6.3.1 Definitions""; ""6.3.2 Some logical points""; ""6.4 Rule utilitarianism""; ""6.4.1 Formulating the theory""; ""6.4.2 Act and rule utilitarianism""; ""7 Strategic oughts""; ""7.1 Strategies""; ""7.1.1 Basic ideas""; ""7.1.2 Limiting the range""; ""7.2 Strategies and choices""; ""7.2.1 Agency""; ""7.2.2 Ability""; ""7.3 Strategic dominance and optimality""; ""7.3.1 Dominance""; ""7.3.2 Optimality""""7.4 A strategic ought operator""""7.4.1 The definition""; ""7.4.2 Logical points""; ""7.4.3 Actualism and possibilism""; ""A: Proofs of validities and propositions""; ""A.1 Validities""; ""A.2 Propositions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""John Horty places deontic logic (the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission) in a new setting - cast against the background of a recently developed logic of agency, as well as problems in moral philosophy of action.Deontic logicAgent (Philosophy)Electronic books.Deontic logic.Agent (Philosophy)160Horty John980307MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456149003321Agency and deontic logic2236382UNINA