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Monotonicity in Logic and Language - Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning, TLLM 2020, Beijing, China, December 17-20, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Dun Deng, Fenrong Liu, Mingming Liu, Dag Westerstahl
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Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic,
Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic,
Language, and Meaning, TLLM 2020, held in Tsinghua, China, in
December 2020. The 12 full papers together presented were fully
reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Due to COVID-19 the
workshop will be held online. The workshop covers a wide range of
topics where monotonicity is discussed in the context of logic,
causality, belief revision, quantification, polarity, syntax,
comparatives, and various semantic phenomena in particular
languages.
The International Congresses of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy
of Science, which are held every fourth year, give a cross-section
of ongoing research in logic and philosophy of science. Both the
invited lectures and the many contributed papers are conductive to
this end. At the 9th Congress held in Uppsala in 1991 there were 54
invited lectures and around 650 contributed papers divided into 15
different sections. Some of the speakers who presented contributed
papers that attracted special interest were invited to submit their
papers for publication, and the result is the present volume. A few
papers appear here more or less as they were presented at the
Congress whereas others are expansions or elaborations of the talks
given at the Congress. A selection of this kind, containing 38
papers drawn from the 650 contributed papers presented at the
Uppsala Congress, cannot do justice to all facets of the field as
it appeared at the Congress. But it should allow the reader to get
a representative survey of contemporary research in large areas of
philosophical logic and philosophy of science. About half of the
papers of the volume appear in sections listed at the Congress
under the heading Philosophical and Foundational Problems about the
Sciences. The section Foundations of Logic, Mathematics and
Computer Science is represented by three papers, Foundations of
Physical Sciences by six papers, Foundations of Biological Sciences
by three papers, Foundations of Cognitive Science and AI by one
paper, and Foundations of Linguistics by three papers.
The International Congresses of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy
of Science, which are held every fourth year, give a cross-section
of ongoing research in logic and philosophy of science. Both the
invited lectures and the many contributed papers are conductive to
this end. At the 9th Congress held in Uppsala in 1991 there were 54
invited lectures and around 650 contributed papers divided into 15
different sections. Some of the speakers who presented contributed
papers that attracted special interest were invited to submit their
papers for publication, and the result is the present volume. A few
papers appear here more or less as they were presented at the
Congress whereas others are expansions or elaborations of the talks
given at the Congress. A selection of this kind, containing 38
papers drawn from the 650 contributed papers presented at the
Uppsala Congress, cannot do justice to all facets of the field as
it appeared at the Congress. But it should allow the reader to get
a representative survey of contemporary research in large areas of
philosophical logic and philosophy of science. About half of the
papers of the volume appear in sections listed at the Congress
under the heading Philosophical and Foundational Problems about the
Sciences. The section Foundations of Logic, Mathematics and
Computer Science is represented by three papers, Foundations of
Physical Sciences by six papers, Foundations of Biological Sciences
by three papers, Foundations of Cognitive Science and AI by one
paper, and Foundations of Linguistics by three papers.
This volume collects the majority of the invited papers at the 13th
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science in Beijing, August 2007. It consists of four sections:
Logic, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Issues of
Particular Sciences, and Science and Society, as well as three
special symposia: Cosmology, Freud and Psychoanalysis and Chinese
Traditional Medicine. The authors are among the most renowned
scholars in their fields, and the collection represents advanced
research in logic, methodology and philosophy of science.
This book collects most of the invited papers presented at the 12th
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science in Oviedo, August 2003. It contains state of the art
accounts of ongoing work by a selection of the most renowned
researchers in the field. The papers in the Logic section deal with
topics in mathematical logic, as well as philosophical logic, and
the area of logic and computation. The section on General
Methodology contains articles on models, theories, probability,
induction, causation, and other topics. A number of papers discuss
Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences, such as mathematics,
physics, linguistics, psychology, biology, and medicine. There is
also a section on Ethics of Science, and papers from a special
symposium on the Emergence of Scientific Medicine in the 19th-20th
Century.
Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic,
and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in
language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of
stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all,
both, and many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive
interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax,
semantics, and inferential role. Quantifiers in Language and Logic
is intended for everyone with a scholarly interest in the exact
treatment of meaning. It presents a broad view of the semantics and
logic of quantifier expressions in natural languages and, to a
slightly lesser extent, in logical languages. The authors progress
carefully from a fairly elementary level to considerable depth over
the course of sixteen chapters; their book will be invaluable to a
broad spectrum of readers, from those with a basic knowledge of
linguistic semantics and of first-order logic to those with
advanced knowledge of semantics, logic, philosophy of language, and
knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
This volume presents work that evolved out of the Third Conference
on Situation Theory and Its Applications, held at Oiso, Japan, in
November of 1991. The chapters presented in this volume continue
the mathematical development of situation theory, including the
introduction of a graphical notation; and the applications of
situation theory discussed are wide-ranging, including topics in
natural language semantics and philosophical logic, and exploring
the use of information theory in the social sciences. The research
presented in this volume reflects a growing international and
interdisciplinary activity of importance for many fields concerned
with information.
This book pursues the recent upsurge of research in the interface
of logic, language and computation, with applications to artificial
intelligence and machine learning. It contains a variety of
contributions to the logical and computational analysis of natural
language. A wide range of logical and computational tools are
employed and applied to such varied areas as context-dependency,
linguistic discourse, and formal grammar. The papers in this volume
cover: context-dependency from philosophical, computational, and
logical points of view; a logical framework for combining dynamic
discourse semantics and preferential reasoning in AI; negative
polarity items in connection with affective predicates; Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar from a perspective of type theory and
category theory; and an axiomatic theory of machine learning of
natural language with applications to physics word problems.
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