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Adaptive Logics for Defeasible Reasoning

Applications in Argumentation, Normative Reasoning and Default Reasoning

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  • © 2014

Overview

  • 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)

  1. Adaptive Logics as a Framework for Defeasible Logics

  2. Default Reasoning

  3. Argumentation Theory

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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.

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

  • Ghent, Belgium

    Christian Straßer

About the author

Christian Straßer obtained his PhD at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University. His main research activities concern defeasible and normative reasoning. Having a background in both philosophy and computer science, he is interested in normative accounts of human reasoning as well as artificial intelligence. http://ugent.academia.edu/ChristianStraßer

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

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