Deontic Logic Teaching Material

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Textbook: Introduction to deontic logic and normative systems.

• Digital download available on the publisher's website.
  
• Reviewed in ZbMATH: Zbl 1431.03034.
  
• Based on lectures initially given at U of Lux (2010-19), master level, and continued at TU Wien, master/PhD level (2022-23-24).
  

Course: Deontic logics for multi-agent systems.

• Videos: Part 1 ; Part 2.
  
• Responsible: Olivier Roy.
  
• Date: Feb 1st and 2nd, 2015.
  
• Location: Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
  
• Target audience: Graduate students in philosophy and in computer science.
  
• No copyrighted material.
  

Course: Deontic logic for normative reasoning.

• Lecturer: Xavier Parent (Practicals: Dominik Pichler).
  
• Date: Apr 8th to 25th, 2024 (also taught in 2022 and 2023).
  
• Location: Technological University of Vienna, Austria.
  
• Part of the master in logic and computation offered by the university.
  
• Audience: master/PhD students in Computer Science.
  
• Teaching material: textbook mentioned above.
  
• Course description and syllabus here.
  

Paul McNamara and Frederik Van De Putte, "Deontic Logic", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/logic-deontic/.

Risto Hilpinen and Paul McNamara, “Deontic Logic: A Historical Survey and Introduction”, in Gabbay et al., Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, vol 1, College Publications, 2013: pp 1–134. PDF