Value-Based Reasoning and Norms

摘要

Norms are designed to guide choice of actions. Value-based practical reasoning is an approach to explaining and justifying choice of actions in terms of value preferences. Here we explore how value-based practical reasoning can be related to norms and their evolution. Starting from a basic model of a society and the norms that can arise from it, we consider how additional values, and a more sophisticated model, with more detailed states and a history, and a finer grained description of actions, can accommodate more complex norms, and a correspondingly more complex social order.