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CfP special issue of Studia Logic on "Permissions, Obligations, & Beyond", Deadline: 15 Nov 2017

Call for Papers: Studia Logica Special Issue

*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:

https://www.editorialmanager.com/stud

The submitted papers will be going through Studia Logica?s standard, 
high-quality peer-review process.

*Submission deadline: November 15st, 2017*

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