A dynamic logic of institutional actions

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Herzig;Emiliano Lorini;Nicolas Troquard

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France;University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France;Laboratory of Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CLIMA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational logic in multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a logical framework to represent and reason about some important aspects of a theory of institutional action: (1) the distinctions between physical facts and actions and institutional facts and actions; (2) the distinction between causality and 'counts-as'; (3) the notion of institutional power. Technically, our contribution consists in extending a dynamic logic of propositional assignments with constructions allowing to express that an agent plays a given role; that a physical action causes another physical action; that a physical action performed by an agent playing a given role counts as an institutional action.