TY - JOUR T1 - Tolerating Deontic Conflicts by Adaptively Restricting Inheritance JF - Logique et Analyse Y1 - 2012 A1 - Straßer, Christian A1 - Meheus, Joke A1 - Beirlaen, Mathieu AB -

In order to deal with the possibility of deontic conflicts Lou Goble developed a group of logics DPM that are characterized by a restriction of the inheritance principle. While they approximate the deductive power of standard deontic logic, they do so only if the user adds certain statements to the premises. By adaptively strengthening the DPM logics, this paper presents logics that overcome this shortcoming. Furthermore, they are capable of modeling the dynamic and defeasible aspect of our normative reasoning by their dynamic proof theory. This way they enable us to have a better insight in the relations between obligations and thus to localize deontic conflicts.

VL - 219 SP - 477-506 ER -