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CfP special issue of Studia Logica on "From Permissions to Obligations", Deadline: 31 May 2017

Call for papers for special issue of Studia Logica
From Permissions to Obligations

GUEST EDITORS:
Piotr Kulicki (KUL, Lublin, Poland) <kulicki@kul.pl>
Olivier Roy (UNI Bayreuth, Germany) <Olivier.Roy@uni-bayreuth.de>

FORMAT OF THE ISSUE AND REFEREEING PROCEDURE:

- Papers should be submitted to Studia Logica in electronic form via 
Editorial Manager https://www.editorialmanager.com/stud The authors should 
register there and select article type special issue ?From Permissions to 
Obligations?. The issue editors will handle all papers submitted for the 
issue. They will manage the review process, and make final decision on the 
papers. Papers submitted by the editors themselves will be handled by the 
journal editor-in-chief. In case not enough papers survive the reviewing 
process, the accepted ones would then be published in a regular issue of 
Studia Logica.

- Submitted papers should not exceed 25 pages. In justified cases longer 
submission could be considered.

- May 31, 2017: Deadline for submissions.

- According Studia Logica publication procedure, when a paper is accepted 
for publication, about 2 months is needed to publish it as ?online first? 
publication. Publication of the hard copy of the issue may take much 
longer.

THEME, MOTIVATION AND AIMS:

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? Is 
there a general structure common to these examples? How are such 
obligations distributed between the parties involved, be they individual 
or institutional actors? Are the generated obligations strict or could 
they be overridden, even when they stem from inalienable rights?

These are fundamental questions regarding the dynamic and social or 
multi-agent aspects of obligations, permissions and rights. Even though 
deontic logic has long been concerned with the relation between obligation 
and permission, this relation is usually understood the other way around. 
Obligations imply permissions, or permissions constrain the promulgation 
of further obligations. The dynamic generation of obligations by rights 
and permissions has received comparatively little attention. This special 
issue aims at filling this gap by focusing on the essential aspects of 
obligations generated from permissions.

Certainly the questions concerning relations between permission and 
obligation cannot be answered without the deep understanding of 
permissions and obligations themselves. Thus papers attempting to 
formalize different aspects of permission and obligation are also welcome.

The impetus for this special issue stem from a joint Polish-German 
research project on the topic (www.piotr-project.org). At the first 
meeting of the project in February 2016 many participants have already 
expressed their interest in submitting to this special issue. In addition 
to these we plan on solicit further contributions through a widely 
distributed call for paper.

ASSOCIATED EVENT:

The editors plan to organize a Symposium on the special issue at the next 
Trends in Logic Conference to be held in Lublin (Poland) in September 2017 
(see trends.philosophy.kul.pl). Financial support will be provided for the 
selected contributors to attend the event.

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