The Philosopher
Lennart Åqvist
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Swedish
- Schools:
- Modal logic, Deontic Logic, Tense Logic
- Branchs:
- Logic, Practical philosophy, Philosophy of law
- Period:
- 20th century
The synopsis
Lennart Åqvist (11 March 1932 – 7 March 2019) was a Swedish logician. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Philosophical Logic. Åqvist received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1960 and has subsequently worked at Uppsala as Docent of Practical Philosophy and as a Reader in Practical Philosophy in the College of Law. On 5 June 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University. Åqvist died on 7 March 2019, at the age of 86.
The works
Some Logico-Semantical Themes in Karl Olivecrona's Philosophy of Law: A Non-Exegetical Approach
An Interpretation of Probability in the Law of Evidence Based on Pro-Et-Contra Argumentation
Some Remarks on Performatives in the Law
Old Foundations for the Logic of Agency and Action
The Logic of Historical Necessity as Founded on Two-Dimensional Modal Tense Logic
Discrete Tense Logic with Infinitary Inference Rules and Systematic Frame Constants: A Hilbert-Style Axiomatization
On the Logic of Causally Necessary and Sufficient Conditions: Towards a Theory of Motive-Explanations of Human Actions
Some Results on Dyadic Deontic Logic and the Logic of Preference
On the Logical Syntax or Linguistic Deep Structure of Certain Crime Descriptions: Prolegomena to the Doctrine of Criminal Intent
A Conjectured Axiomatization of Two-Dimensional Reichenbachian Tense Logic
Modal Logic with Subjunctive Conditionals and Dispositional Predicates
Improved Formulations of Act-Utilitarianism
Chisholm-Sosa Logics of Intrinsic Betterness and Value
Good Samaritans, Contrary-to-Duty Imperatives, and Epistemic Obligations
Semantic and Pragmatic Characterizability of Linguistic Usage
Results Concerning Some Modal Systems That Contain S
A Solution to Moore's Paradox
Interpretations of Deontic Logic
A Note on Commitment
Semantic Concepts of Expression