Projects
Fine-Grained Logics for Normative Reasoning Ghent University
Normative reasoning is reasoning involving normative notions, both deontic, such as obligations,
permissions, and evaluative, such as what is good, bad, right.
Standard accounts of normative reasoning, based on normal modal logic, are too coarse-grained
to be useful, also because they allow for absurd consequences from perfectly legitimate premises
(e.g. If you ought to send a letter, then you ...
Towards a more integrated formal account of actual ethical reasoning, with applications in medical ethics. Ghent University
The project has two main aims. The first is to lay the conceptual framework for a formal account that allows for the explication and evaluation of actual reasoning processes involving ethical dilemma’s. The second aim is to design non-classical modal logics within this framework and to apply them to some well-chosen cases from the domain of medical ethics.