Prima facie obligation |
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Authors: | Nicholas Asher Daniel Bonevac |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712 Austin, Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a nonmonotonic deontic logic based on commonsense entailment. It establishes criteria a successful account of obligation should satisfy, and develops a theory that satisfies them. The theory includes two conditional notions of prima facie obligation. One is constitutive; the other is epistemic, and follows nonmonotonically from the constitutive notion. The paper defines unconditional notions of prima facie obligation in terms of the conditional notions. |
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Keywords: | deontic logic nonmonotonic logic |
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