Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth CenturyDov M. Gabbay, John Woods Elsevier, 2006 M05 10 - 732 pages Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas. This volume is number seven in the eleven volume Handbook of the History of Logic. It concentrates on the development of modal logic in the 20th century, one of the most important undertakings in logic’s long history. Written by the leading researchers and scholars in the field, the volume explores the logics of necessity and possibility, knowledge and belief, obligation and permission, time, tense and change, relevance, and more. Both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for students and researchers in the history of logic, the history of philosophy, and any discipline, such as mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration. · Detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic. · Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer many questions in the field of logic. |
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Page viii
... the new logics of knowledge and belief, and of obligation and permission, were able to retain much of the syntactic and semantic machinery of their alethic predecessors, showing that all these logics are to Preface viii.
... the new logics of knowledge and belief, and of obligation and permission, were able to retain much of the syntactic and semantic machinery of their alethic predecessors, showing that all these logics are to Preface viii.
Page ix
... obligation had taken yet another step away from classical logic. Not only are these newer logics intensional and more experimentally oriented than their classical vis-`a-vis, but there is now the looming presence of agents operating in ...
... obligation had taken yet another step away from classical logic. Not only are these newer logics intensional and more experimentally oriented than their classical vis-`a-vis, but there is now the looming presence of agents operating in ...
Page 32
... obligations. In other words, we are saying that a state of affairs different from the actual one is consistently thinkable, viz. a state of affairs in which α is done but in which all the obligations are nevertheless fulfilled. Thus if ...
... obligations. In other words, we are saying that a state of affairs different from the actual one is consistently thinkable, viz. a state of affairs in which α is done but in which all the obligations are nevertheless fulfilled. Thus if ...
Page 33
... obligations one has now. Sometimes one is permitted to do something only at the cost of new obligations. These must be thought of as being fulfilled in μ* in order to be sure that all the obligations one has really are compatible with ...
... obligations one has now. Sometimes one is permitted to do something only at the cost of new obligations. These must be thought of as being fulfilled in μ* in order to be sure that all the obligations one has really are compatible with ...
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Contents
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Epistemic Logic Paul Gochet and Pascal Gribomont | 99 |
Deontic Logic Paul McNamara | 197 |
Relevant and Substructural Logics Greg Restall | 289 |
A N Priors Logic Peter Øhrstrøm and Per F V Hasle | 399 |
The Philosophical Background Peter Øhrstrøm and Per F V Hasle | 447 |
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