Sven Ove Hansson is Professor of the Philosophy of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. He is a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. His many publications include The Ethics of Risk (2013), Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management (2013, co-edited with Deborah Oughton), Norms in Technology (2013, co-edited with Marc J. de Vries and Anthonie W.M. Meijers), David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems (2014), and The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives (forthcoming).
Preface
Prolegomena: 1. Formalization
Part I. Values: 2. Exclusionary preferences
3. Preference states
4. Changes in exclusionary preferences
5. Constructing combinative preferences
6. Pairwise combinative preferences
7. Decision-guiding combinative preferences
8. Monadic value predicates
Part II. Norms: 9. A starting point for deontic logic
10. Situationist deontic logic
11. Conflicts and counterfactuals
12. Rules and normative systems
13. Legal relations
Epilogue: 14. Afterthought
Proofs
References
Index of symbols
General index.
