Forrester's Paradox
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9686510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale Jacquette (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 761-764 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300049684 |
| OpenAlex | W2087013656 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In “Gentle Murder, Or The Adverbial Samaritan”, James William Forrester presents what he describes as “the most powerful version yet put forward” of Lennart Åqvist's Good Samaritan paradox in deontic logic. Forrester suggests that the paradox may make it necessary to reject the standard deontic inference principle (where “ r ” is an index for any source of obligation). This desperate conclusion, as Forrester acknowledges, would imply that all of standard deontic logic “must be in a bad way”. But Forrester's “paradox” is not nearly so deep or intractable as he maintains
Adverbial · Deontic logic · Economics · Epistemology · Inference · Linguistics · Mathematical economics · Obligation · Political science · Computer Science · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |