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deontic logic

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Albert Anglberger

Austrian logician working on deontic logic, modal logic, and their philosophical applications.

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Andrew Jones

British philosopher who has worked on deontic logic, the logic of agency, and the formal representation of normative concepts.

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Bengt Hansson

Swedish logician who made early contributions to conditional deontic logic and the logic of preference.

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Brian Chellas

American logician who wrote Modal Logic: An Introduction — one of the standard introductory texts on modal logic — and contributed to the study of conditional obligation in deontic logic.

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Daniel Bonevac

American philosopher at University of Texas who has worked on logic, deontic logic, and conditional norms, and is known for widely used logic textbooks.

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Daniel Rönnedal

Swedish logician who has worked on deontic logic and the formal analysis of normative concepts, contributing to the literature on contrary-to-duty obligations and temporal deontic logic.

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Henry Prakken

Dutch computer scientist and logician who has worked on formal models of argumentation, defeasible reasoning, and the logic of legal argumentation.

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James Forrester

American philosopher who contributed to deontic logic — particularly through the 'gentle murder' puzzle that exposes problems with standard deontic logic.

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James Tomberlin

American philosopher who worked on agent-relative obligations in deontic logic, the metaphysics of action, and edited the Philosophical Perspectives series.

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John Horty

American logician and philosopher who extended the stit theory of agency to deontic logic, developing a formal theory of obligation based on agency in branching time, and contributed to the logic of defaults and reasons.

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John Niles

Philosopher who has contributed to deontic logic and the analysis of action, permission, and obligation.

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John-Jules Meyer

Dutch computer scientist who has worked on deontic logic and its applications to artificial intelligence, particularly normative multi-agent systems.

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José Carmo

Portuguese logician who has worked on contrary-to-duty obligations, deontic logic, and normative reasoning in AI.

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Judith Decew

American philosopher who has worked on privacy law, women and the law, and contributed to deontic logic.

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Leendert van der Torre

Dutch computer scientist who has worked on deontic logic and normative reasoning in artificial intelligence.

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Lennart Åqvist

Swedish logician who made significant contributions to deontic logic, imperative logic, and the logic of questions (erotetic logic).

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Marek Sergot

British computer scientist at Imperial College who has worked on the logical representation of normative systems, deontic logic, and their applications to AI and law.

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Patricia Greenspan

American philosopher who has worked on conditional obligation, practical reasons, and moral psychology — arguing that emotions play a genuine rational role in moral reasoning.

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Paul McNamara

American philosopher who has worked on deontic logic and the logic of supererogation — actions that are praiseworthy but not required.

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Peter Mott

British philosopher who has contributed to deontic logic and the analysis of normative concepts in legal philosophy.

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Risto Hilpinen

Finnish logician who has contributed to deontic logic, epistemic logic, the logic of action, and the philosophy of artifacts.

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Ron van der Meyden

Dutch-Australian computer scientist who has worked on the logic of knowledge and deontic logic in the context of artificial intelligence and security.

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Sven Danielsson

Swedish philosopher who has worked on deontic logic, the logic of preference, and their applications to ethical theory.

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Xavier Parent

Belgian logician working on deontic logic and normative reasoning, particularly input/output logic.

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