Climate obligations and social norms

Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions under Conflicting Obligations

Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Acknowledgments We thank Nicholas P. Lovrich and the Division of Government Studies and Services at Washington State University for the opportunity to work wit...

From Desires, Obligations and Norms to Goals

Traditional models of agents based on Beliefs, Desires and Intentions usually only include either desires or goals. Therefore the process whereby goals arise from desires is given scant attention. In this paper we argue that the inclusion of both desires and goals in the same model can be important, particularly in a Multi-Agent System context, where other sources of individual motivation such ...

ICMAS '96: Norms, Obligations, and Conventions

tant will behave as a shark with regard to potential partners, always looking for the most convenient transaction, thereby infringing on existing commitments. Other difficult tasks, more generally, are how to obtain a robust performance in teamworks (Cohen and Levesque 1990); how to prevent agents from dropping their commitments ; or better, how to regulate agents dropping their commitments to ...

Motivational Attitudes of Agents: On Desires, Obligations, and Norms

Obligations as Social Constructs

In this paper we formalize sanction-based obligations in the context of Searle’s notion of construction of social reality. In particular, we define obligations using a counts as conditional, Anderson’s reduction to alethic modal logic and Boella and Lesmo’s normative agent. Our analysis presents an alternative criticism to the weakening rule, which has already been criticized in the philosophic...