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OBLIGATION, FREE CHOICE, AND THE LOGIC OF WEAKEST PERMISSIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2015

ALBERT J.J. ANGLBERGER ,
NOBERT GRATZL  and
OLIVIER ROY
ALBERT J.J. ANGLBERGER*
Affiliation:
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich
NOBERT GRATZL*
Affiliation:
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich
OLIVIER ROY*
Affiliation:
Universität Bayreuth
*
*MUNICH CENTER FOR MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY LMU MUNICH FAKULTÄT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE, WISSENSCHAFTSTHEORIE UND RELIGIONSWISSENSCHAFT MUNICH CENTER FOR MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY GESCHWISTER-SCHOLL-PLATZ 1 D-80539 MÜNCHEN E-mail: albert@anglberger.org
†MUNICH CENTER FOR MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY LMU MUNICH FAKULTÄT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE, WISSENSCHAFTSTHEORIE UND RELIGIONSWISSENSCHAFT MUNICH CENTER FOR MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY GESCHWISTER-SCHOLL-PLATZ 1 D-80539 MÜNCHEN E-mail: Norbert.Gratzl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
‡UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY D-95440 BAYREUTH E-mail: Olivier.Roy@uni-bayreuth.de
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Abstract

We introduce a new understanding of deontic modals that we call obligations as weakest permissions. We argue for its philosophical plausibility, study its expressive power in neighborhood models, provide a complete Hilbert-style axiom system for it and show that it can be extended and applied to practical norms in decision and game theory.

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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 807 - 827
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2015 

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