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Ingmar Pörn – In Memoriam

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Ingmar Pörn died at his home in Finland in February 2014, at the age of 78. During his academic career, Pörn carried out research in a number of areas of Philosophy, including significant contributions to the logics of action, interaction and norms, on which this note will focus.

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Jones, A.J.I. (2014). Ingmar Pörn – In Memoriam . In: Cariani, F., Grossi, D., Meheus, J., Parent, X. (eds) Deontic Logic and Normative Systems. DEON 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8554. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08615-6_1

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