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This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions
honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan's work on self-reference. It
serves not only as a tribute to one of the great thinkers in logic,
but also as a celebration of self-reference in general, to be
enjoyed by all lovers of this field. Raymond Smullyan,
mathematician, philosopher, musician and inventor of logic puzzles,
made a lasting impact on the study of mathematical logic;
accordingly, this book spans the many personalities through which
Professor Smullyan operated, offering extensions and re-evaluations
of his academic work on self-reference, applying self-referential
logic to art and nature, and lastly, offering new puzzles designed
to communicate otherwise esoteric concepts in mathematical logic,
in the manner for which Professor Smullyan was so well known. This
book is suitable for students, scholars and logicians who are
interested in learning more about Raymond Smullyan's work and life.
This volume contains English translations of Frege's early writings in logic and philosophy and of relevant reviews by other leading logicians. Professor Bynum has contributed a biographical essay, introduction, and extensive bibliography.
This volume is dedicated to Prof. Dag Prawitz and his outstanding
contributions to philosophical and mathematical logic. Prawitz's
eminent contributions to structural proof theory, or general proof
theory, as he calls it, and inference-based meaning theories have
been extremely influential in the development of modern proof
theory and anti-realistic semantics. In particular, Prawitz is the
main author on natural deduction in addition to Gerhard Gentzen,
who defined natural deduction in his PhD thesis published in 1934.
The book opens with an introductory paper that surveys Prawitz's
numerous contributions to proof theory and proof-theoretic
semantics and puts his work into a somewhat broader perspective,
both historically and systematically. Chapters include either
in-depth studies of certain aspects of Dag Prawitz's work or
address open research problems that are concerned with core issues
in structural proof theory and range from philosophical essays to
papers of a mathematical nature. Investigations into the necessity
of thought and the theory of grounds and computational
justifications as well as an examination of Prawitz's conception of
the validity of inferences in the light of three "dogmas of
proof-theoretic semantics" are included. More formal papers deal
with the constructive behaviour of fragments of classical logic and
fragments of the modal logic S4 among other topics. In addition,
there are chapters about inversion principles, normalization of p
roofs, and the notion of proof-theoretic harmony and other areas of
a more mathematical persuasion. Dag Prawitz also writes a chapter
in which he explains his current views on the epistemic dimension
of proofs and addresses the question why some inferences succeed in
conferring evidence on their conclusions when applied to premises
for which one already possesses evidence.
This volume describes and analyzes in a systematic way the great
contributions of the philosopher Krister Segerberg to the study of
real and doxastic actions. Following an introduction which
functions as a roadmap to Segerberg's works on actions, the first
part of the book covers relations between actions, intentions and
routines, dynamic logic as a theory of action, agency, and deontic
logics built upon the logics of actions. The second section
explores belief revision and update, iterated and irrevocable
beliefs change, dynamic doxastic logic and hypertheories. Segerberg
has worked for more than thirty years to analyze the intricacies of
real and doxastic actions using formal tools - mostly modal
(dynamic) logic and its semantics. He has had such a significant
impact on modal logic that "It is hard to roam for long in modal
logic without finding Krister Segerberg's traces," as Johan van
Benthem notes in his chapter of this book.
Themes from Ontology, Mind and Logic celebrates Peter Simons's
admirable career. The book contains seventeen essays with themes
ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology. The contributions by
Fabrice Correia, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, Ingvar Johansson,
Kathrin Koslicki, Uriah Kriegel, Wolfgang Kunne, Edgar Morscher,
Kevin Mulligan, Maria Elisabeth Reicher, Maria van der Schaar,
Benjamin Schnieder, Johanna Seibt, Ted Sider, David Woodruff Smith,
Mark Textor and Jan Wolenski, tackle the problems that defined
Simons's work and insights into some of today's most interesting
and significant philosophical questions.
This is not quite the book I originally intended to write. Since I
first felt that linguistic application of categorial grammar
merited a system- atic presentation, I have been subject to (what
seemed to be) a series of demanding technical and foundational
distractions. Inspite of a prej- udice that mathematical elegance
was even inconsistent with linguistic practicality, repeated
illumination of the latter by the former implied a new perspective
on the field, one prompting formal innovation, and some
re-examination of methods and goals. This piece collects and
extends work over the last four years general- ising categorial
grammar to a categorial logic. The state of the art at the
beginning of that period was represented by the edited collections
Oehrle, Bach and Wheeler (1988) and Buszkowski, Marciszewski and
van Benthem (1988) (see Morrill 1991a, b), and by Moortgat (1988b).
Familiarity with such work however is not strictly necessary for an
un- derstanding of the present one, which attempts to map a
self-contained, if intensive, course with Montague Grammar as its
point of departure. This being the case, the reader should have an
understanding of logical semantics and its technicalities, such as
would be obtained from Dowty, Wall and Peters (1981), or Gamut
(1991). Some familiarity with the issues raised by contemporary
syntactic theories would also be useful, as would some familiarity
with logical deduction.
A comprehensive survey of Martin-Loef's constructive type theory,
considerable parts of which have only been presented by Martin-Loef
in lecture form or as part of conference talks. Sommaruga surveys
the prehistory of type theory and its highly complex development
through eight different stages from 1970 to 1995. He also provides
a systematic presentation of the latest version of the theory, as
offered by Martin-Loef at Leiden University in Fall 1993. This
presentation gives a fuller and updated account of the system.
Earlier, brief presentations took no account of the issues related
to the type-theoretical approach to logic and the foundations of
mathematics, while here they are accorded an entire part of the
book. Readership: Comprehensive accounts of the history and
philosophy of constructive type theory and a considerable amount of
related material. Readers need a solid background in standard logic
and a first, basic acquaintance with type theory.
Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical
questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range
of issues in metaphysics-including unity, identity, grounding,
mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingness-and
deploys the techniques of paraconsistent logic in order to offer a
radically new treatment of unity. Priest brings together traditions
of Western and Asian thought that are usually kept separate in
academic philosophy: he draws on ideas from Plato, Heidegger, and
Nagarjuna, among other philosophers.
The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw
in 1973. Since then, meetings have grown in size and have been held
in Leyden, Copenhagen, Nijmegen, Rome, Oxford, Poitiers and
Freiburg am-Breisgau. The ninth Symposium was held in St Andrews in
June 1990, with 57 participants who listened to addresses by 28
speakers. It was very fitting that Scotland's oldest university,
founded in the heyday of medievalleaming in 1411, should have been
given the chance to bring together scholars from all over Europe
and beyond to present their researches on the glorious past of
scholastic rational thought. The topic of the Symposium was
"Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar." The present volume
consists, for the most part, of the papers presented at the
Symposium. In fact, however, it proved impossible to include five
of the contributions. Two of the papers included here were intended
for the Symposium but in the event not delivered, because of the
unavoidable absence of the speakers. The Symposium received very
helpful financial support from one of the major philosophical
associations in Britain, the Mind Association, from the
Philosophical Quarterly, a journal published at St Andrews, from
the University of St Andrews, from the British Academy, and from
Low and Bonarplc. In organising the programme for the conference
and in preparing the papers for publication I received invaluable
help from: Professor E.J."
Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual
or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information
processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and
practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal
and finalistic theory which is connected with a specific theory of
institutions. The philosophical basis of the logic of norm
sentences and of other systems of practical thinking (formal
teleology, axiology, logic of preferences) is discussed. The author
criticizes traditional deontic logic and argues in favor of a
genuine logic of norms. The book gives a structure analysis of the
so-called practical inference and of nomic causal propositions.
Besides a critical account of von Wright's practical philosophy the
author offers critical analyses of discourse rationality (Habermas,
Apel, Alexy) and of Wittgenstein's views on philosophizing. The
book addresses readers interested in philosophical logic, practical
philosophy, sociology of institutions, legal philosophy, and theory
democracy.
Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the
dawn of philosophy. Since logic is the study of correct reasoning,
it is a fundamental branch of epistemology and a priority in any
philosophical system. Philosophers have focused on mathematics as a
case study for general philosophical issues and for its role in
overall knowledge- gathering. Today, philosophy of mathematics and
logic remain central disciplines in contemporary philosophy, as
evidenced by the regular appearance of articles on these topics in
the best mainstream philosophical journals; in fact, the last
decade has seen an explosion of scholarly work in these areas.
This volume covers these disciplines in a comprehensive and
accessible manner, giving the reader an overview of the major
problems, positions, and battle lines. The 26 contributed chapters
are by established experts in the field, and their articles contain
both exposition and criticism as well as substantial development of
their own positions. The essays, which are substantially
self-contained, serve both to introduce the reader to the subject
and to engage in it at its frontiers. Certain major positions are
represented by two chapters--one supportive and one critical.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Math and Logic is a
ground-breaking reference like no other in its field. It is a
central resource to those wishing to learn about the philosophy of
mathematics and the philosophy of logic, or some aspect thereof,
and to those who actively engage in the discipline, from advanced
undergraduates to professional philosophers, mathematicians, and
historians.
Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics sets out to
fill up a lacuna in the present research on Husserl by presenting a
precise account of Husserl's work in the field of logic, of the
philosophy of logic and of the philosophy of mathematics. The aim
is to provide an in-depth reconstruction and analysis of the
discussion between Husserl and his most important interlocutors,
and to clarify pivotal ideas of Husserl's by considering their
reception and elaboration by some of his disciples and followers,
such as Oskar Becker and Jacob Klein, as well as their influence on
some of the most significant logicians and mathematicians of the
past century, such as Luitzen E. J. Brouwer, Rudolf Carnap, Kurt
Goedel and Hermann Weyl. Most of the papers consider Husserl and
another scholar - e.g. Leibniz, Kant, Bolzano, Brentano, Cantor,
Frege - and trace out and contextualize lines of influence, points
of contact, and points of disagreement. Each essay is written by an
expert of the field, and the volume includes contributions both
from the analytical tradition and from the phenomenological one.
Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever
since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an
intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory.
Remarkably, in the 1990s several new lines of research have
appeared, with series of original publications by Fred Johnson,
Richard Patterson and Ulrich Nortmann. Johnson presented for the
first time a formal semantics adequate to a de re reading of the
apodeictic syllogistic; this was based on a simple intuition
linking the modal syllogistic to Aristotelian metaphysics. Nortmann
developed an ingenious de dicto analysis. Patterson articulated the
links (both theoretical and genetic) between the modal syllogistic
and the metaphysics, using an analysis which strictly speaking is
neither de re nor de dicto. My own studies in this field date from
1976, when my colleague Peter Roeper and I jointly wrote a paper
"Aristotle's apodeictic syllogisms" for the XXIInd History of Logic
Conference in Krakow. This paper contained the disjunctive reading
of particular affirmative apodeictic propositions, which I still
favour. Nonetheless, I did not consider that paper's results
decisive or comprehensive enough to publish, and my 1981 book The
Syllogism contained no treatment of the modal syllogism. The
paper's ideas lay dormant till 1989, when I read Johnson's and
Patterson's initial articles. I began publishing on the topic in
1991. Gradually my thoughts acquired a certain comprehensiveness
and systematicity, till in 1993 I was able to take a semester's
sabbatical to write up a draft of this book.
Poland has played an enormous role in the development of
mathematical logic. Leading Polish logicians, like Lesniewski,
Lukasiewicz and Tarski, produced several works related to
philosophical logic, a field covering different topics relevant to
philosophical foundations of logic itself, as well as various
individual sciences. This collection presents contemporary Polish
work in philosophical logic which in many respects continue the
Polish way of doing philosophical logic. This book will be of
interest to logicians, mathematicians, philosophers, and linguists.
The distinguished scholar of ancient philosophy J.L. Ackrill here presents the best of his essays on Plato and Aristotle from the past forty years. He brings philosophical acuity and philological expertise to a range of texts and topics in ancient thought - from ethics and logic to epistemology and metaphysics - which continue to be widely discussed today.
The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods
that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence.
These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by
renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at
removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and
deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and
justification in the sciences in different contexts and with
different objectives.
The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences,
especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability
and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the
social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist
re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and
reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial
Intelligence.
They document the second international conference in Vienna on
"Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific
Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy
of Science in Europe," funded by the European Science Foundation
(ESF).
This volume is a culmination of years of development, and the
first to introduce the concepts of superoptimum evaluative and
explanatory reasoning. Stuart Nagel's new Quorum book will help
academic and practicing attorneys in two important ways. First, by
understanding evaluative reasoning, they will gain a better grasp
of the appropriate behavior to be adopted if they wish to achieve
certain desired goals. Second, by understanding the elements of
explanatory reasoning, they will understand how and why decisions
are reached.
Evaluative reasoning can take several forms. It can help
decision-makers select from among several public policy choices. It
can enhance individual decision-making and provide means to
allocate scarce resources. It can also assist in advocating and
influencing decisions, mediating disputes, representing divergent
viewpoints, and in assigning people to specific tasks. Explanatory
reasoning, on the other hand, will help explain public policy
making, and assist users in generalizing from cases and facts, and
in understanding relationships. The purpose of explanatory
reasoning is also to explain why superoptimum solutions are
infrequently adopted and why they are seldom successfully
implemented. The use of both kinds of reasoning, says Nagel, are
particularly important to those who want a better understanding and
want to improve the legal system.
The goal of this work is twofold. First, it aims to account for
double genitive constructions in Serbian. Second, it aims to
re-evaluate the DP hypothesis in light of their existence in
Serbian. Based on evidence from the categorial status of
possessives, argumenthood in the nominal domain, the
morphosyntactic structure of nominalizations, and the assignment of
the genitive case, it is argued that DP projection must be assumed
in Serbian.
Aristotle's modal syllogistic is his study of patterns of reasoning
about necessity and possibility. Many scholars think the modal
syllogistic is incoherent, a 'realm of darkness'. Others think it
is coherent, but devise complicated formal modellings to mimic
Aristotle's results. This volume provides a simple interpretation
of Aristotle's modal syllogistic using standard predicate logic.
Rini distinguishes between red terms, such as 'horse', 'plant' or
'man', which name things in virtue of features those things must
have, and green terms, such as 'moving', which name things in
virtue of their non-necessary features. By applying this
distinction to the "Prior Analytics," Rini shows how traditional
interpretive puzzles about the modal syllogistic melt away and the
simple structure of Aristotle's own proofs is revealed. The result
is an applied logic which provides needed links between Aristotle's
views of science and logical demonstration. The volume is
particularly valuable to researchers and students of the history of
logic, Aristotle's theory of modality, and the philosophy of logic
in general.
Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals
with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial
systematic questions within the field. The book studies the rich
contributions from ancient and medieval philosophy up to the
downfall of temporal logic in the Renaissance. The modern
rediscovery of the subject, which is especially due to the work of
A. N. Prior, is described, leading into a thorough discussion of
the use of temporal logic in computer science and the understanding
of natural language. Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to
Artificial Intelligence thus interweaves linguistic, philosophical
and computational aspects into an informative and inspiring whole.
It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community
the second edition of this extraordinary handbook. It has been over
15 years since the publication of the first edition and there have
been great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since
then. The first edition has proved invaluable to generations of
students and researchers in formal philosophy and language, as well
as to consumers of logic in many applied areas. The main logic
article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1999 has described the
first edition as 'the best starting point for exploring any of the
topics in logic'. We are confident that the second edition will
prove to be just as good The first edition was the second handbook
published for the logic commu nity. It followed the North Holland
one volume Handbook of Mathematical Logic, published in 1977,
edited by the late Jon Barwise. The four volume Handbook of
Philosophical Logic, published 1983-1989 came at a fortunate
temporal junction at the evolution of logic. This was the time when
logic was gaining ground in computer science and artificial
intelligence circles. These areas were under increasing commercial
pressure to provide devices which help and/or replace the human in
his daily activity. This pressure required the use of logic in the
modelling of human activity and organisa tion on the one hand and
to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program
constructs on the other."
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