Editors:
- Offers a collection of analyses, discussions and interpretations on celebrated logician, David Makinson’s, work bridging classical and non-classical logic
- Highlights the areas of logic in which Makinson had significant influence
- Provides a short autobiography by Makinson which details his intellectual encounters and inspirations as well as his candid views on the role of logic in philosophy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic (OCTR, volume 3)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introductory
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Front Matter
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About this book
The volume analyses and develops David Makinson’s efforts to make classical logic useful outside its most obvious application areas. The book contains chapters that analyse, appraise, or reshape Makinson’s work and chapters that develop themes emerging from his contributions. These are grouped into major areas to which Makinsons has made highly influential contributions and the volume in its entirety is divided into four sections, each devoted to a particular area of logic: belief change, uncertain reasoning, normative systems and the resources of classical logic.
Among the contributions included in the volume, one chapter focuses on the “inferential preferential method”, i.e. the combined use of classical logic and mechanisms of preference and choice and provides examples from Makinson’s work in non-monotonic and defeasible reasoning and belief revision. One chapter offers a short autobiography by Makinson which details his discovery of modern logic, his travels across continents and reveals his intellectual encounters and inspirations. The chapter also contains an unusually explicit statement on his views on the (limited but important) role of logic in philosophy.
Keywords
- AGM and ranking theory
- Bayesian theory of second-order uncertainty
- Belief change
- Belief revision
- Classical logic
- Epistemic reasoning in life and literature
- Interfaces of input/output logic
- New Horn rules for probabilistic consequence
- Non-monotonic logic
- Norm change in the common law
- Permission and obligation
- Relevance logic as extension of classical logic
- Rules for classical connectives
- Safe contraction
- Theories of belief revision
- Uncertain reasoning
Reviews
From the reviews:
“A fine bunch of authors present papers about the present status of the fields of work of an outstanding logician, David Makinson, in this book. … I think that graduate students and researchers in the area of logic and artificial intelligence will especially benefit from reading this book, for the perspective it provides on what one should work on in these areas (tools and techniques) and how one should work in these areas (with clarity and precision).” (K. Lodaya, Computing Reviews, May, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Div. Philosophy, Stockholm, Sweden
Sven Ove Hansson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems
Editors: Sven Ove Hansson
Series Title: Outstanding Contributions to Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7759-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7758-3Published: 10 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0663-4Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7759-0Published: 20 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-2758
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2766
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 433
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Theoretical Linguistics