Synthese

Synthese publishes articles in all the fields covered by the subtitle. These include: the theory of knowledge; the general methodological problems of science, such as the problems of scientific discovery and scientific inference, of induction and probability, of causation and the role of mathematics, statistics and logic in science; the methodological and foundational problems of different sciences. Insofar as they have philosophical interest: those aspects of symbolic logic and of the foundations of mathematics which are relevant to the philosophy and methodology of science; and those facets of the ethics, history and sociology of science which are important for contemporary topical pursuits. Special attention is paid to the role of mathematical, logical and linguistic methods in the general methodology of science and the foundations of the different sciences.


Special section Knowledge, Rationality and Action, edited by Wiebe van der Hoek:

The aim of the section is to provide a platform for researchers interested in a formal approach to the process comprising rational behaviour: from gathering and representing information, via reasoning and decision making up to acting. Consequently, the journal will address topics related to:

Knowledge - Gathering information, reasoning about knowledge, belief, uncertainty, and information about changing situations: belief revision and updates, dynamics epistemic logic, security and authorisation.
Rationality - Decision making, bounded rationality and resource bounded reasoning, optimal and satisfycing behaviour, preferences, cooperative and competitive behaviour, logic and game theory, solution concepts of games, computational models of rational behaviour, planning, theories of norms.
Action - Theories of action, theories of belief and action, rational agency, social structures, logic for action and change, sensing, temporal reasoning, re-planning, verification of dynamic systems, logic programming, the frame problem, action and cognition.