Moral responsibility is one of the key concepts in ethics and plays a central role in understanding human action. However, we cannot fully comprehend the concept of responsibility without adressing the difficulties posed by moral dilemmas. This paper does not aim to assess the adequacy of various ethical theories, but rather to investigate what logic can reveal about the nature of these challenges. It is widely held that within standard deontic logic, formalizing moral dilemmas can lead to contradictions, thus trivializing the set of moral principles. How logicians approach this problem, and whether standard deontic logic can successfully address these philosophical challenges, are the main questions we will explore.
Katarina Maksimovic (Wed,) studied this question.