CfP: Studia Logica special issue "Permissions, Obligations, and beyond"
*Permissions, Obligations, and Beyond*
Guest Editors: Piotr Kulicki (kulicki@kul.pl) and Olivier Roy (Olivier.Roy@uni-bayreuth.de)
*Submission deadline: November 15st, 2017*
Exercising one’s rights, or acting on one’s permission can generate
obligations for others. Contract law and international law provide
examples. Debtors are obligated to comply when their creditors exercise
their right to request payment. Free trade agreements place their
signatories under the obligation not to pass protectionist regulations. A
similar phenomenon holds for permissions stemming from morality or
rationality. Others ought not infringe my individual right to dignity.
In negotiation, one party making a permissible offer might put the other
under the (rational) obligation to accept it.
When exactly, then, do permissions and rights generate obligations?
What, more generally, should be the proper relationship between
obligations and permissions? This is a fundamental question for deontic
logic. Even though researchers in the field have long been concerned
with it, the relation between obligations and permissions is usually
understood either as the first implying the second, or as the second
constraining the promulgation of further obligations. The dynamic
generation of obligations by rights and permissions, by contrasts, has
received comparatively little attention. This special issue aims at
exploring such questions, and more generally welcomes any original
perspective on the logical relations between obligations and permissions
and other related topics within deontic logic.
Submissions should be done via the Studia Logica Editorial Manager:
The submitted papers will be going through Studia Logica’s standard, high-quality peer-review process.
*Submission deadline: November 15st, 2017*