Deontic constraints are maximizing rules
Deontic constraints prohibit an agent performing acts of a certain type even when doing so will prevent more instances of that act being performed by others. In this article I show how deontic constraints can be interpreted as either maximizing or non-maximizing rules. I then argue that they should...
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Main Author: | HAMMERTON, Matthew |
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Format: | text |
Language: | English |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2020
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3144 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4401/viewcontent/Hammerton_2020_DeonticConstraints_av.pdf |
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