Concept

Deontic logic

Overview

The field of philosophical logic and a class of formal systems that are concerned with obligation, permission, and related concepts

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Deontic logic

• Georg Henrik von Wright
• Roderick Chisholm
• Ernst Mally

Related ideas

• Georg Henrik von Wright
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Permission (philosophy)
• Immanuel Kant
• Karl Menger
• Propositional logic
• Obligation
• Domain of discourse
• Conditional probability
• Medieval philosophy
• Philosophical logic
• Mīmāṃsā
• Temporal logic
• Modal logic
• Non-monotonic logic
• Accessibility relation
• Alexius Meinong
• Roderick Chisholm
• Paraconsistent logic
• Tautology (logic)
• Ancient Greece
• Contradiction
• Normal modal logic
• Kripke semantics

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Accessibility relation
• Conditional probability
• Domain of discourse
• Karl Menger
• Non-monotonic logic
• Normal modal logic
• Alethic modality
• Imperative logic
• Ought implies can
• Vacuous truth
• Deontic modality

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