An Intentional Tort Theory of Patents

Domestic Relations—Right of Child to Sue Parents for an Intentional Tort

Epstein's Tort Theory: a Critique

IN three articles published in this journal between 1973 and 1975, my colleague Professor Richard Epstein set forth an ambitious normative theory of tort law.' Among the distinctive features of this theory were the author's insistence that strict liability based on causal principles should be the prima facie standard of liability, that notions of liberty rather than of economic efficiency shoul...

Tort Duties of Landowners: A Positive Theory

One of the most controversial areas of modern tort law is that of the duty of landowners toward people who visit their land. The common law divided land visitors into three types: invitees, licensees, and trespassers. The highest duty of care was owed to the invitee and the lowest to the trespasser. The distinctions led courts to hand down harsh decisions and to draw formal lines between the ca...

Intentional Systems Theory

Intentional systems theory is in the first place an analysis of the meanings of such everyday 'mentalistic' terms as 'believe,' 'desire,' 'expect,' 'decide,' and 'intend,' the terms of 'folk psychology' (Dennett 1971) that we use to interpret, explain, and predict the behavior of other human beings, animals, some artifacts such as robots and computers, and indeed ourselves. In traditional parla...

Toward an AgentSpeak(L) Theory of Commitment and Intentional Learning

This work is about the commitment strategies used by rational agents programmed in AgentSpeak(L) and the relationship between single-minded commitment and intentional learning. Although agent oriented languages were proposed to reduce the gap between theory and practice of Multi-Agent Systems, it has been difficult to prove BDI properties of the agents programmed in such languages. For this rea...