Attributing Mental Attitudes to Social Entities: Constitutive Rules are Beliefs, Regulative Rules are Goals
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre · 2004
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a model of constitutive and regulative norms in a logical multiagent framework. We analyze the relationship between these two types of rules and explain similarities between them, using the metaphor of considering social entities- like normative systems, groups and organizations- as agents and of attributing them mental attitudes as well as an autonomous behavior. We argue that while constitutive norms expressing “counts-as ” relations are modelled as the beliefs of social entities, regulative norms, like obligations, prohibitions and permissions, are modelled as their goals. 1