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A Contractualist Argumentation Framework for Moral Decision-Making

Autonomous agents operating in shared environments must make decisions that affect multiple individuals with potentially conflicting interests. We propose a formal framework for moral decision-making grounded in Scanlon's contractualism, an ethical theory that evaluates the permissibility of actions in terms of principles that no one could reasonably reject. To operationalise contractualist reasoning, we use ASPIC+, a structured argumentation framework, extended with value-based filtering to mod

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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 4 August 2026

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