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Proof, Computation and Agency

Logic at the Crossroads

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Johan van Benthem

    1. , Institute for Logic, Language and, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  2. Amitabha Gupta

    1. Powai, Mumbai, India

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  3. Rohit Parikh

    1. Graduate Center, Department of Computer and, City University of New York, New York, USA

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  • offers a mixture of well-established authors and a new generation of feminist scholars
  • the relative dearth of collected volumes devoted to feminist epistemology in the last decade lends significance to the broad-ranging collection
  • represents significant developments in the field, building on the previous generation of work in the 1990s
  • part of the Springer series on feminist philosophy

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 352)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Logic Today: Some Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What Is Mathematical Logic? A Survey

      • John N. Crossley
      Pages 3-17

    3. Is There a Logic of Society?

      • Rohit Parikh
      Pages 19-31

  3. Logic and Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. What Is a Proof?

      • John N. Crossley§
      Pages 35-52

    3. A Visit to Tarski’s Seminar on Elimination of Quantifiers

      • Wilfrid Hodges
      Pages 53-66

    4. Deductive Systems of Fuzzy Logic

      • Petr Hájek
      Pages 67-78

  4. Logic and Computation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. What Is the Difference Between Proofs and Programs?

      • John N. Crossley
      Pages 81-97

    3. Zero-One Laws: Thesauri and Parametric Conditions

      • Andreas Blass, Yuri Gurevich
      Pages 99-114

    4. Recent Developments of Feedback Coding and Its Relations with Many-Valued Logic

      • Ferdinando Cicalese*, Daniele Mundici
      Pages 115-131

    5. Two Applications of Epistemic Logic in Computer Security

      • Ron van der Meyden
      Pages 133-144

    6. An Introduction to Quantum Computing

      • Noson S. Yanofsky
      Pages 145-180

  6. Logic, Language and Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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Proof, Computation and Agency: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic and its relationship with other disciplines. As a highlight, several articles pursue an inspiring paradigm called 'social software', which studies patterns of social interaction using techniques from logic and computer science. The book also demonstrates how logic can join forces with game theory and social choice theory. A second main line is the logic-language-cognition connection, where the articles collected here bring several fresh perspectives. Finally, the book takes up Indian logic and its connections with epistemology and the philosophy of science, showing how these topics run naturally into each other.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Institute for Logic, Language and, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Johan van Benthem

  • Powai, Mumbai, India

    Amitabha Gupta

  • Graduate Center, Department of Computer and, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Rohit Parikh

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