Abstract
We use a deontic logic of collective agency to study reducibility questions about collective agency and collective obligations. The logic that is at the basis of our study is a multi-modal logic in the tradition of stit (‘sees to it that’) logics of agency. Our full formal language has constants for collective and individual deontic admissibility, modalities for collective and individual agency, and modalities for collective and individual obligations. We classify its twenty-seven sublanguages in terms of their expressive power. This classification enables us to investigate reducibility relations between collective deontic admissibility, collective agency, and collective obligations, on the one hand, and individual deontic admissibility, individual agency, and individual obligations, on the other.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Synthese |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Mar 2020 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgementsAllard Tamminga and Hein Duijf gratefully acknowledge financial support from the ERC-2013-CoG project REINS, No. 616512. Hein Duijf gratefully acknowledges funding from the ERC-2017-CoG project SEA, No. 771074. Frederik Van De Putte’s research is funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, No. 795329, and by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen). We thank the anonymous referees at this journal for their valuable suggestions and comments.