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Agency and Deontic Logic

John F. Horty

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9780195134612

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0195134613.001.0001

Group Oughts

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(p. 122 ) Chapter 6 Group Oughts
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Agency and Deontic Logic
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John F. Horty (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0195134613.003.0006

The notion of what an agent ought to do is generalized to yield a notion of what groups of agents ought to do. Relations among the obligations governing groups and subgroups are explored, as well as the connections among different species of individual act utilitarianism, group act utilitarianism, and rule (or cooperative) utilitarianism.

Keywords:   act utilitarianism, cooperative utilitarianism, group act utilitarianism, group obligation, rule utilitarianism

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