Agency and deontic logic by John F. Horty

Author:John F. Horty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-12-30T19:09:27+00:00

We now introduce a conditional operator—represented through the symbol—in terms of which the connections sketched so far between independence and counterfactual conditionals can be made precise.

In our informal discussion, the antecedents of the counterf actual conditionals under consideration have been taken to express claims to the effect that agents perform certain actions; and since our conditional operator belongs to the object language, we have to make sure that the object language itself is rich enough to express these claims. Therefore, for each agent and for each action K open to at some moment m, we introduce a special propositional constant , governed by the following evaluation rule.

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