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Leendert van der Torre

Disciplines:
deontic logic
artificial intelligence

Summary

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

Core Contribution

Co-developed input/output logic with David Makinson — a framework for reasoning about norms that handles conditional obligations without the paradoxes of SDL.

Notable Works & Achievements

Input/Output Logic

Historical Influences

David Makinson Georg Henrik von Wright

Intellectual Lineage

Deontic Logic Artificial Intelligence

Contemporaries & Peers

Xavier Parent

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Input/Output Logic

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