Handbook of Philosophical Logic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Modal Logic and Self-Reference

   • Craig Smoryński

   Pages 1-53

3. Diagonalization in Logic and Mathematics

   • Dale Jacquette

   Pages 55-147

4. Semantics and the Liar Paradox

   • Albert Visser

   Pages 149-240

5. The Logic of Fiction

   • John Woods, Peter Alward

   Pages 241-316

6. Back Matter

   Pages 317-323

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It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook. It has been over 15 years since the publication of the first edition and there have been great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since then. The first edition has proved invaluable to generations of students and researchers in formal philosophy and language, as well as to consumers of logic in many applied areas. The main logic article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1999 has described the first edition as 'the best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic'. We are confident that the second edition will prove to be just as good! The first edition was the second handbook published for the logic commu­ nity. It followed the North Holland one volume Handbook of Mathematical Logic, published in 1977, edited by the late Jon Barwise. The four volume Handbook of Philosophical Logic, published 1983-1989 came at a fortunate temporal junction at the evolution of logic. This was the time when logic was gaining ground in computer science and artificial intelligence circles. These areas were under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices which help and/or replace the human in his daily activity. This pressure required the use of logic in the modelling of human activity and organisa­ tion on the one hand and to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program constructs on the other.

• logic
• modal logic
• philosophical logic

"The best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic"
                                                                  Encyclopaedia Britannica

• King’s College, London, UK

  D. M. Gabbay

• Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

  F. Guenthner

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