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This volume is number five in the 11-volume "Handbook of the
History of Logic." It covers the first 50 years of the development
of mathematical logic in the 20th century, and concentrates on the
achievements of the great names of the period--Russell, Post,
Godel, Tarski, Church, and the like. This was the period in which
mathematical logic gave mature expression to its four main parts:
set theory, model theory, proof theory and recursion theory.
Collectively, this work ranks as one of the greatest achievements
of our intellectual history. Written by leading researchers in the
field, both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive
reference tools for senior undergraduates, graduate students and
researchers in the history of logic, the history of philosophy, and
any discipline, such as mathematics, computer science, and
artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his
or her work is a salient consideration.
"Philosophy of Linguistics" investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the foundational assumptions set during the second half of the last century and the unfolding shifts in perspective in which more functionalist perspectives are explored. The opening chapter lays out the philosophical background in preparation for the papers that follow, which demonstrate the shift in the perspective of linguistics study through discussions of syntax, semantics, phonology and cognitive science more generally. The volume serves as a detailed introduction for those new to the field as well as a rich source of new insights and potential research agendas for those already engaged with the philosophy of linguistics. Part of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science series edited by: Dov M. Gabbay, King's College, London, UK; Paul Thagard,
University of Waterloo, Canada; and John Woods, University of
British Columbia, Canada.
Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of
mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical
propositions and gauging their consistency strength. It is as a
field of mathematics that both proceeds with its own internal
questions and is capable of contextualizing over a broad range,
which makes set theory an intriguing and highly distinctive
subject. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific
turning points in set theory, providing fresh insights and points
of view. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this
volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools
for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in
mathematics, the history of philosophy, and any discipline such as
computer science, cognitive psychology, and artificial
intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work
is a salient consideration
This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction, theories and models, causal inference and scientific realism as they apply to medicine or medical science in particular. Some discuss important concepts specific to medicine (diagnosis, health, disease, brain death). A topic such as evidence, for instance, is examined at a variety of levels, from social mechanisms for guiding evidence-based reasoning such as evidence-based medicine, consensus conferences, and clinical trials, to the more abstract analysis of experimentation, inference and uncertainty. Some chapters reflect on particular domains of medicine, including psychiatry, public health, and nursing. The contributions span a broad range of detailed cases from the
science and practice of medicine, as well as a broad range of
intellectual approaches, from conceptual analysis to detailed
examinations of particular scientific papers or historical
episodes.
This volume is number ten in the 11-volume Handbook of the
History of Logic. While there are many examples were a science
split from philosophy and became autonomous (such as physics with
Newton and biology with Darwin), and while there are, perhaps,
topics that are of exclusively philosophical interest, inductive
logic - as this handbook attests - is a research field where
philosophers and scientists fruitfully and constructively interact.
This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points
in Inductive Logic, including probability theory and decision
theory. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this
volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools
for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in the
history of logic, the history of philosophy, and any discipline,
such as mathematics, computer science, cognitive psychology, and
artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his
or her work is a salient consideration. Chapter on the Port Royal contributions to probability theory and decision theory Serves as a singular contribution to the intellectual history of the 20th century Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights"
The most pressing problems facing humanity today - over-population,
energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species
extinctions, the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare
that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even
the recent fibrillations of the stock market - are all ecological
or have a large ecological component. in this volume philosophers
turn their attention to understanding the science of ecology and
its huge implications for the human project.
Quantification and modalities have always been topics of great
interest for logicians. These two themes emerged from philosophy
and
Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences
and humanities, which is crucial to understanding physical
computation, communication, and human cognition. The Philosophy of
Information brings together the most important perspectives on
information. It includes major technical approaches, while also
setting out the historical backgrounds of information as well as
its contemporary role in many academic fields. Also, special
unifying topics are high-lighted that play across many fields,
while we also aim at identifying relevant themes for philosophical
reflection. There is no established area yet of Philosophy of
Information, and this Handbook can help shape one, making sure it
is well grounded in scientific expertise. As a side benefit, a book
like this can facilitate contacts and collaboration among diverse
academic milieus sharing a common interest in information.
This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the
practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide
range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy
of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines.
Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates
and set the stage for future work.
The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical
underpinnings has been developing exponentially for a century, the
last 35 years seeing an outpouring of new ideas and applications
and a concomitant confluence with ideas of complex systems and
their applications from irreversible thermodynamics. A few examples
are in meteorology, ecological dynamics, andsocial and economic
dynamics. These new ideas have profound implications for our
understanding and practice in domains involving complexity,
predictability and determinism, equilibrium, control, planning,
individuality, responsibility and so on. -Comprehensive coverage of all main theories in the philosophy of Complex Systems -Clearly written expositions of fundamental ideas and concepts -Definitive discussions by leading researchers in the field -Summaries of leading-edge research in related fields are also included"
This collection represents the primary reference work for
researchers and students in the area of Temporal Reasoning in
Artificial Intelligence. Temporal reasoning has a vital role to
play in many areas, particularly Artificial Intelligence. Yet,
until now, there has been no single volume collecting together the
breadth of work in this area. This collection brings together the
leading researchers in a range of relevant areas and provides an
coherent description of the breadth of activity concerning temporal
reasoning in the filed of Artificial Intelligence.
The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed
multi-volume A
- The most extensive coverage compared to competitive works. - Demonstrates not only that abduction is a form of ignorance
preserving - Demonstrates the satisficing rather than maximizing character
of - The development of formal models of abduction is considerably
more extensive than one finds in existing literature. It is an
especially impressive amalgam of sophisticated
Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus
investigation of
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Since its inception in the famous 1936 paper by Birkhoff and von
Neumann entitled "The logic of quantum mechanics" quantum logic,
i.e. the logical investigation of quantum mechanics, has undergone
an enormous development. Various schools of thought and approaches
have emerged and there are a variety of technical results.
Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic marks the initial appearance of the
multi-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. Additional volumes
will be published when ready, rather than in strict chronological
order. Soon to appear are The Rise of Modern Logic: From Leibniz to
Frege. Also in preparation are Logic From Russell to Godel, The
Emergence of Classical Logic, Logic and the Modalities in the
Twentieth Century, and The Many-Valued and Non-Monotonic Turn in
Logic. Further volumes will follow, including Mediaeval and
Renaissance Logic and Logic: A History of its Central.
The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research
instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in
modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It
is the first work in English in which the history of logic is
presented so extensively. The volumes are numerous and large.
Authors have been given considerable latitude to produce chapters
of a length, and a level of detail, that would lay fair claim on
the ambitions of the project to be a definitive research work.
Authors have been carefully selected with this aim in mind. They
and the Editors join in the conviction that a knowledge of the
history of logic is nothing but beneficial to the subject's
present-day research programmes. One of the attractions of the
Handbook's several volumes is the emphasis they give to the
enduring relevance of developments in logic throughout the ages,
including some of the earliest manifestations of the subject.
Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for
their subject matter, but they also share part of them with
colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological
notion of a 'natural kind' with the general notion of
'confirmation' of a hypothesis by certain evidence. Or compare the
physical principle of the 'conservation of energy' and the general
principle of 'the unity of science'. Scientists agree that all such
notions and principles aren't as crystal clear as one might wish.
Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare occasion to meet. The present book contains contributions, both historical and thematic, from leading researchers in several of the most important approaches to legal rationality. One of the main issues is the relation between logic and law: the way logic is actually used in law, but also the way logic can make law explicit. An outstanding group of philosophers, logicians and jurists try to meet this issue. The book is more than a collection of papers. However different their respective conceptual tools may be, the authors share a common conception: legal argumentation is a specific argumentation context.
Lambda Calculi: A Guide Interpolation and Definability Discourse Representation Theory
Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned
with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This
collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview
of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of
them could have been written even ten years ago. They demonstrate
how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes
contested areas of scientific theory making.
This text centers around three main subjects. The first is the concept of modularity and independence in classical logic and nonmonotonic and other nonclassical logic, and the consequences on syntactic and semantical interpolation and language change. In particular, we will show the connection between interpolation for nonmonotonic logic and manipulation of an abstract notion of size. Modularity is essentially the ability to put partial results achieved independently together for a global result. The second aspect of the book is the authors' uniform picture of conditionals, including many-valued logics and structures on the language elements themselves and on the truth value set. The third topic explained by the authors is neighbourhood semantics, their connection to independence, and their common points and differences for various logics, e.g., for defaults and deontic logic, for the limit version of preferential logics, and for general approximation. The book will be of value to researchers and graduate students in logic and theoretical computer science.
Starting with simple examples showing the relevance of cutting and pasting logics, the monograph develops a mathematical theory of combining and decomposing logics, ranging from propositional and first-order based logics to higher-order based logics as well as to non-truth functional logics. The theory covers mechanisms for combining semantic structures and deductive systems either of the same or different nature. The issue of preservation of properties is addressed.
This is an overview of the current state of knowledge along with open problems and perspectives, clarified in such fields as non-standard inferences in description logics, logic of provability, logical dynamics and computability theory. The book includes contributions concerning the role of logic today, including unexpected aspects of contemporary logic and the application of logic. This book will be of interest to logicians and mathematicians in general.
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 com- 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 organi- tion on the one hand and to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program constructs on the other.
With the publication of the present volume, the Handbook of the History of Logic turns its attention to the rise of modern logic. The period covered is 1685-1900, with this volume carving out the territory from Leibniz to Frege. What is striking about this period is the earliness and persistence of what could be called 'the mathematical turn in logic'. Virtually every working logician is aware that, after a centuries-long run, the logic that originated in antiquity came to be displaced by a new approach with a dominantly mathematical character. It is, however, a substantial error to suppose that the mathematization of logic was, in all essentials, Frege's accomplishment or, if not his alone, a development ensuing from the second half of the nineteenth century. The mathematical turn in logic, although given considerable torque by events of the nineteenth century, can with assurance be dated from the final quarter of the seventeenth century in the impressively prescient work of Leibniz. It is true that, in the three hundred year run-up to the Begriffsschrift, one does not see a smoothly continuous evolution of the mathematical turn, but the idea that logic is mathematics, albeit perhaps only the most general part of mathematics, is one that attracted some degree of support throughout the entire period in question. Still, as Alfred North Whitehead once noted, the relationship between mathematics and symbolic logic has been an "uneasy" one, as is the present-day association of mathematics with computing. Some of this unease has a philosophical texture. For example, those who equate mathematics and logic sometimes disagree about the directionality of the purported identity. Frege and Russell made themselves famous by insisting (though for different reasons) that logic was the senior partner. Indeed logicism is the view that mathematics can be re-expressed without relevant loss in a suitably framed symbolic logic. But for a number of thinkers who took an algebraic approach to logic, the dependency relation was reversed, with mathematics in some form emerging as the senior partner. This was the precursor of the modern view that, in its four main precincts (set theory, proof theory, model theory and recursion theory), logic is indeed a branch of pure mathematics. It would be a mistake to leave the impression that the mathematization of logic (or the logicization of mathematics) was the sole concern of the history of logic between 1665 and 1900. There are, in this long interval, aspects of the modern unfolding of logic that bear no stamp of the imperial designs of mathematicians, as the chapters on Kant and Hegcl make clear. Of the two, Hcgel's influence on logic is arguably the greater, serving as a spur to the unfolding of an idealist tradition in logic - a development that will be covered in a further volume, British Logic in the Nineteenth Century. |
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