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  1. Deontic Paradoxes in Mīmāṃsā Logics: There and Back Again.Kees van Berkel, Agata Ciabattoni, Elisa Freschi, Francesca Gulisano & Maya Olszewski - 2023 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 32 (1):19-62.
    Centered around the analysis of the prescriptive portion of the Vedas, the Sanskrit philosophical school of Mīmāṃsā provides a treasure trove of normative investigations. We focus on the leading Mīmāṃsā authors Prabhākara, Kumārila and Maṇḍana, and discuss three modal logics that formalize their deontic theories. In the first part of this paper, we use logic to analyze, compare and clarify the various solutions to the _śyena_ controversy, a two-thousand-year-old problem arising from seemingly conflicting commands in the Vedas. In the second (...)
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