He has been recognized, too, as a pioneer in other fields ranging from international law and the birth control movement to motivational psychology and deontic logic. In 1968 when the first two volumes ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program seeking to automatically translate obligations, permissions and prohibitions, known as deontic concepts, into logical ...

It must choose one set of actions based on some behavioral constraints on the agent. Past work has used deontic logic to declaratively express such constraints in logic, and developed the concept of a ...

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Initially, an automated sentence filtering task was conducted to retain only those sentences that met regulatory criteria, including quantitative requirements, subjective requirements, and deontic ...

Examining how mindful observers respond to third-party injustice, we integrate mindfulness with deontic justice theory to propose that mindfulness does not numb but rather enlivens people to injustice ...

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Input/Output (I/O) logics have been devised by Makinson and van der Torre [1] as a class of formal systems for norm-based deontic reasoning. Intuitively, they formalize the question what obligations ...

has a PhD in mathematically informed literary theory from Harvard Comparative Literature in collaboration with the HUJI Einstein Institute of Mathematics. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles ...