Defeasible Deontic Reasoning

  • Authors:
  • L. Thorne Mccarty

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper combines a system of deontic logic with a system for default reasoning to analyze a notorious philosophical problem: Chisholm's Paradox. The basic approach is to write deontic rules with explicit exceptions, but we also consider the extent to which a set of implicit exceptions can be derived from the underlying deontic semantics.