Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings
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DEONTIC LOGIC: INTRODUCTORY AND SYSTEMATIC READINGS Edited by RISTO HILPINEN
Department of Philosophy, University of Turku, Finlllnd
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D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT : HOLLAND / BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Deontic logic. (Synthese library; v. 33) Includes bibliographies and indexes. Contents: Deontic logic / Dagimn F011esdal and Risto Hilpinen New foundations for ethical theory / Stig Kanger - Some main problems of deontic logic / laakko Hintikka - [etc.] 1. Deontic logic - Adresses, essays, lectures. I. Hilpinen, Risto. BC145.D45 1981 160 72-135103 AACR2
ISBN-13: 978-90-277-1302-5 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-3146-2 DOl: 10.1 007/978-94-010-3146-2
First published in 1971 Reprinted in 1981, with new Introduction Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston Inc., 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, Holland D. Reidel Publishing Company is a member of the Kluwer Group
First published in 1971 in hardbound edition by Reidel in the series Synthese Library. Volume 33 All Rights Reserved Copyright © 1971, 1981 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland and copyright owners as specified on appropriate pages within No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND IMPRESSION
VII
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
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INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND IMPRESSION
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DAGFINN FI/>LLESDAL and RISTO HILPINEN / Deontic Logic: An Introduction STIG KANGER / New Foundations for Ethical Theory
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JAAKKO HINTIKKA/Some Main Problems of Deontic Logic
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GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT / A New System of Deontic Logic
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BENGT HANSSON / An Analysis of Some Deontic Logics
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KRISTER SEGER BERG / Some Logics of Commitment and Obligation
148
GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT / Deontic Logic and the Theory of Conditions
159
INDEX OF NAMES
178
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
180
PREFACE TO THE SECOND IMPRESSION
This second impression of Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings is published simultaneously with a companion volume entitled New Studies in Deontic Logic (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht 1981). The papers published in the present collection outline the 'basic' or 'standard' system of deontic logic, discuss its applications to moral philosophy, and analyse the concepts of commitment and conditional obligation. New Studies contains ten previously unpublished papers on the philosophical foundations and various special topics of the logic of norms: the foundations of deontic logic and action theory, problems of no
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