Pushing Anderson's Envelope: The Modal Logic of Ascription

  • Authors:
  • Davide Grossi

  • Affiliations:
  • Individual and Collective Reasoning Group Computer Science and Communications, University of Luxembourg,

  • Venue:
  • DEON '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The paper proposes a formal analysis of the ascriptive view of norms as resulting from pulling together Anderson's reductionist approach, the analysis of counts-as, and a novel modal approach to the formal representation of languages in logic. This unifying attempt results in the definition of a new form of reduction of deontic logic based on counts-as statements. Such result is discussed also in the light of Jørgensen's dilemma.