Moral conflicts between groups of agents

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Two groups of agents, G1 and G2, face a moral conflict if G1has a moral obligation and G2 has a moral obligation, such that these obligations cannot both be fulfilled. We study moral conflicts using a multi-agent deontic logic devised to represent reasoning about sentences like 'In the interest of group F of agents, group G of agents ought to see to it that Ø.' We provide a formal language and a consequentialist semantics. An illustration of our semantics with an analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemma follows. Next, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for (1) the possibility that a single group of agents faces a moral conflict, for (2) the possibility that two groups of agents face a moral conflict within a single moral code, and for (3) the possibility that two groups of agents face a moral conflict. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

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Kooi, B., & Tamminga, A. (2008). Moral conflicts between groups of agents. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-007-9049-z

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