Solutions to the exercises from Session 2. Some new and harder puzzles in SDL.

In our second session we read Forrester’s article on the Gentle Murderer which highlights problems with the handling of conditional obligations in Standard Deontic Logic.

In our first session we basic notions underlying deontic logic. In particular, we introduce Standard Deontic Logic.

This entry contains a list of topics and literature. I will from time to time add stuff here. Feel free to suggest topics and papers you are interested in! Possible worlds and SDL (session #1) How do possible world semantics in modal logic work? Standard Deontic Logic: what are the main ideas. Seminal work in deontic logic: the limits of SDL Von Wright’s seminal paper on deontic logic