Abstract
The term social software was coined by Rohit Parikh in 2002. Social software can be viewed as a research program which studies the construction and verification of social procedures by using tools in logic and computer science. However, to the best of my knowledge, social software has not been considered from a non-classical logical perspective. In this paper, I argue how non-classical logical approaches can enrich, broaden and support the agenda of social software.
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37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police, Martin Gansberg, The New York Times, 27.03.1965.
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A canonical example from law is civil disobedience where agents deliberately break the law and create an inconsistent situation where moral obligations and legal duties clash. Yet, still we obtain a non-trivial and coherent inconsistent situation.
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Other reasons being, no cost of information, no reference to the actual society, etc.
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It is generally argued that, in the 2004 US elections, if Greens—which is a very small political party in the US—had voted strategically against Bush, he might not have been reelected.
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Brennan mentions Habermas who argued that “strategic voting is disrespectful to other citizens” (Brennan 2011).
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Clearly, putting all of the financial and emotional burden of raising a child (with tuition and care cost etc.) to couples is a socio-economical decision taken by governements, and does not apply equivalently to all countries and societies. We leave such issues aside in this paper, even if they constitute an interesting direction for social software as well.
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November 17, 2000 in Israeli daily Haaretz. In a similar way, his 2009 (2012, in English) book is called Economic Fables to underline the fact that game theorists are tellers of fables.
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Başkent, C. (2017). A Non-classical Logical Approach to Social Software. In: Başkent, C., Moss, L., Ramanujam, R. (eds) Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society. Outstanding Contributions to Logic, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47843-2_6
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