American philosopher who contributed to deontic logic — particularly through the 'gentle murder' puzzle that exposes problems with standard deontic logic.
The Gentle Murder paradox: 'If you murder, murder gently' — in standard deontic logic this implies 'you ought to murder gently' given that you murder, but this seems to license murder. Challenges the standard system SDL.
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