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José Carmo

Disciplines:
deontic logic
artificial intelligence

Summary

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

Core Contribution

Contributed to formal solutions to the problem of contrary-to-duty obligations — situations where someone has violated a norm and further norms apply to their violation; developed deontic logic systems for normative multi-agent systems.

Notable Works & Achievements

A New Approach to Contrary-to-Duty Obligations

Historical Influences

Georg Henrik von Wright Henry Prakken

Intellectual Lineage

Deontic Logic Artificial Intelligence

Contemporaries & Peers

Andrew Jones Henry Prakken

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Deontic Logic Research

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