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Logic of Violations: A Gentzen System for Reasoningwith Contrary-To-Duty Obligations

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  • Guido Governatori School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Antonino Rotolo CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v4i0.1780

Abstract

In this paper we present a Gentzen system for reasoning with contrary-to-duty obligations. The intuition behind the system is that a contrary-to-duty is a special kind of normative exception. The logical machinery to formalise this idea is taken from substructural logics and it is based on the definition of a new non-classical connective capturing the notion of reparational obligation. Then the system is tested against well-known contrary-to-duty paradoxes.

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Author Biographies

Guido Governatori, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

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Published

2006-01-25

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Issue

Vol. 4 (2006): Australasian Journal of Logic

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