Handbook of Philosophical Logic

In its second edition, this book surveys the changing landscape of philosophical logic, and shows how the computer science, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics fields have driven the demand for development in philosophical logic.

This second edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic reflects great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since the first edition. It gives readers an idea of that landscape and its relation to computer science and formal language and artificial intelligence. It shows how the increased demand for philosophical logic from computer science and artificial intelligence and computational linguistics accelerated the development of the subject directly and indirectly. This development in turn, directly pushed research forward, stimulated by the needs of applications. New logic areas became established and old areas were enriched and expanded. At the same time, it socially provided employment for generations of logicians residing in computer science, linguistics and electrical engineering departments which of course helped keep the logic community to thrive. The many contributors to this Handbook are active in these application areas and are among the most famous leading figures of applied philosophical logic of our times.

Includes current views about logic in computer science, computational linguistics and artificial intelligence Now includes chapters on non-monotonic logic and combinatory logic and ?-calculus A most extraordinary collection written by famous people Updates the first edition described as 'the best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic' ? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Editorial Preface; Dov M. Gabbay.- Hybrid Logic; Torben Braüner.- Nominal Terms and Nominal Logics: From Foundations to Meta-mathematics; Murdoch J. Gabbay.- Introduction to Labelled Deductive Systems; Dov M. Gabbay.- Index.