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- Presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework to model defeasible reasoning
- Features intuitive examples and case studies
- Details a range of applications that will appeal to researchers with various interests and backgrounds
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Trends in Logic (TREN, volume 38)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Adaptive Logics as a Framework for Defeasible Logics
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Default Reasoning
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Argumentation Theory
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework for modeling defeasible reasoning. It examines various contexts in which defeasible reasoning is useful and offers a compact introduction into adaptive logics.
The author first familiarizes readers with defeasible reasoning, the adaptive logics framework, combinations of adaptive logics, and a range of useful meta-theoretic properties. He then offers a systematic study of adaptive logics based on various applications.
The book presents formal models for defeasible reasoning stemming from different contexts, such as default reasoning, argumentation, and normative reasoning. It highlights various meta-theoretic advantages of adaptive logics over other logics or logical frameworks that model defeasible reasoning. In this way the book substantiates the status of adaptive logics as a generic formal framework for defeasible reasoning.
Keywords
- abnormality-based reasoning
- abstract argumentation
- adaptive logic
- conditional logics of normality
- default logic
- defeasible modus ponens
- defeasible reasoning
- deontic conflicts
- deontic logic
- deontic paradox
- diachronic defeasibility
- dynamic proofs
- nonmonotonic logic
- plausible reasoning
- preference semantics
- reasoning on the basis of uncertainty
- selection semantics
- standard format for adaptive logics
- synchronic defeasibility
Reviews
“This is a book on the application of a class of logics, called adaptive logics, to a particular form of reasoning, in effect, of a defeasible kind. … this book is clearly aimed at people interested in knowing the reaches of a formal logic formalism, from a philosophical viewpoint, without great concern for complexity and computational issues. And it may also serve a public with such computational concerns looking for an articulated starting point.” (Marcelo Finger, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
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Ghent, Belgium
Christian Straßer
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptive Logics for Defeasible Reasoning
Book Subtitle: Applications in Argumentation, Normative Reasoning and Default Reasoning
Authors: Christian Straßer
Series Title: Trends in Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00792-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00791-5Published: 13 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34388-4Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00792-2Published: 29 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1572-6126
Series E-ISSN: 2212-7313
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 438
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science