Deontic Logic for Human Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence
2014-09-19 v2
Abstract
Deontic logic is shown to be applicable for modelling human reasoning. For this the Wason selection task and the suppression task are discussed in detail. Different versions of modelling norms with deontic logic are introduced and in the case of the Wason selection task it is demonstrated how differences in the performance of humans in the abstract and in the social contract case can be explained. Furthermore it is shown that an automated theorem prover can be used as a reasoning tool for deontic logic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.6974,
title = {Deontic Logic for Human Reasoning},
author = {Ulrich Furbach and Claudia Schon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6974},
year = {2014}
}