Agency and deontic logic / / John F. Horty

• Autore: Horty John F.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 160
• Soggetto topico: Deontic logic; Agent (Philosophy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Overview -- Indeterminism and agency. Branching time ; Individual agency ; Individual ability ; Group agency and ability -- Ought to be. The standard theory ; A utilitarian theory ; The Meinong/Chisholm analysis ; Evaluating the analysis -- Ought to do. Dominance ; Dominance act utilitarianism ; A new deontic operator ; Independence -- Conditional oughts. Conditionally optimal actions ; A conditional ought operator ; Two patterns of argument ; Orthodox act utilitarianism -- Group oughts. Optimal group actions ; Individual and group act utilitarianism ; Deontic operators for group oughts ; Rule utilitarianism -- Strategic oughts. Strategies ; Strategies and choices ; Strategic dominance and optimality ; A strategic ought operator -- A Proofs of validities and propositions. Validities ; Propositions.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Agency and deontic logic
• ISBN: 0-19-539198-5; 1-280-47321-5; 9786610473212; 0-19-803076-2; 1-4237-2751-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910965045003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II