{
  "id": 15890,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01937v1",
  "title": "A Contractualist Argumentation Framework for Moral Decision-Making",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Luis Marcos-Vidal, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-03T09:10:22.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-04T05:10:21.797Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15890",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01937v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}