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The next event is on Thursday, October 1st:

LIRa session: Matteo Pascucci


Speaker: Matteo Pascucci (Central European University)

Date and Time: Thursday, October 1st 2026, 16:30-18:00

Venue: online only.

Title: Logic accounts of responsibility: current achievements and future challenges

Abstract. Recent years have witnessed a growing request for automating reasoning about responsibility in the normative domain. In this presentation, I will review the main objectives that have already been achieved by existing formal accounts of responsibility, and discuss some challenges that call for extending these frameworks and developing new ones. The first part of the talk is dedicated to a sample of scenarios where responsibility ascription (or lack thereof) cannot be easily reduced to criteria that are commonly formalized in the literature. This gives rise to theoretical considerations that are used, in the second part of the article, to develop a new framework of multimodal logic. The new framework is not intended to solve all problems; it rather provides a detailed formal analysis of the sample scenarios and indicates that, since responsibility ascription (or lack thereof) relies on different features in different scenarios, the formulas employed to describe responsibility judgments tend to be highly heterogeneous. Accordingly, the presentation ends with the following thought: in order to achieve wider applications in automated normative reasoning, logics of responsibility might consider adopting a case-by-case approach to the analysis of relevant scenarios.
(The presentation is based on joint work with Ilgar Gapagov)

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