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The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.

In addition to an introduction by the editors, a section on Professor Hilpinen's positions, professional services and honors, as well as a complete bibliography of his writings,  the editors, McNamara, Jones and Brown, have compiled a multidisciplinary global cross-section of academic contemporaries that provides insights and perspectives on Hilpinen's influence and legacy.

The essays reflect central aspects of Risto Hilpinen's research interests, and offer further contributions to some of the philosophical fields for which he is best known: applied modal logic, including deontic logic (from the ancient Greek d ni déon, pertaining to the concepts of duty and obligation), the semantics of normative language, the logic of action, and the theory of practical reasoning; the analysis of the concept of artifact; and the theory of semiotics in the tradition of Charles Peirce. The presence in the collection of several papers relating to deontic logic underlines Hilpinen's importance in that area, in which his publications have long been recognized as standard works. The book is an essential collection of ideas for all those who feel at home in a variety of formal disciplines, from propositional logic to the logic of artificial intelligence.

Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen

Editors' Introduction
Part I. Branching Time, Causation, and Agency1. Time and Actual ObligationsMark A. Brown
2. Actual Cause and Chancy Causation in 'Stit': a Preliminary AccountMarek Sergot
Part II. The Nature of Norms & Obligations3. Deontic Logic and the Propositional Nature of NormsPablo E. Navarro, Jorge L. Rodríguez
4. Imperative Foundations for the Metaphysics of ObligationPeter B. M. Vranas
Part III. Varieties and Applications of Normative Logic5. The Logic of "Must" and "Have to"Sven Ove Hansson
6 On the Role of Normative Modalities in the Characterization of EmotionsAndrew J I Jones
7. A Natural Conditionalization of the DWE FrameworkPaul McNamara
Part IV. History of Deontic Logic8. Ibn Hazm on Heteronomous Imperatives. A Landmark in the History of the Logical Analysis of NormsShahid Rahman, Farid Zidani, Walter Edward Young
Part V. Inquiry and Inference9. Hilpinen's Theory of InquiryErik J. Olsson
10. Practical InferencesHille Paakkunainen
Part VI. Artifacts11. Artwork Authorship As a Sign-in-actionJoao Queiroz and Pedro Ata
12. The Primacy of Abstract ArtifactsMaria Elisabeth Reicher
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