Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

1. Front Matter

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2. A programme of general semantics

   • Marie Duží, Bjørn Jespersen, Pavel Materna

   Pages 1-132

3. Foundations of semantic analysis

   • Marie Duží, Bjørn Jespersen, Pavel Materna

   Pages 133-278

4. Singular reference and pragmatically incomplete meaning

   • Marie Duží, Bjørn Jespersen, Pavel Materna

   Pages 279-358

5. Requisites: the logic of intensions

   • Marie Duží, Bjørn Jespersen, Pavel Materna

   Pages 359-419

6. Attitudes and information

   • Marie Duží, Bjørn Jespersen, Pavel Materna

   Pages 421-528

7. Back Matter

   Pages 529-552

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This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. Three books and around 100 papers on Transparent Intensional Logic have till now seen the light of day since the mid-1960s. So why a book of more than 500 pages now? For two reasons. Firstly, Transparent Intensional Logic is a theory without something like a textbook. Now this is not an actual textbook, if a textbook is a patient introduction garnished with exercises and solutions; nor is it a teach-yourself-in-a-week manual for the uninitiated-but-curious. But we, the three authors, have striven to write an accessible one-stop survey of Transparent Intensional Logic that may be read by advanced students of logic, semantics, linguistics, informatics, computer science, and kindred disciplines. Secondly, logical semantics is a field progressing by leaps and bounds, and much has happened since Tichý put out his first and only book in 1988. We thought it was about time for us to assemble in one place the most important - tensions, improvements and applications stemming from the last several years that address issues not dealt with either at all or only cursorily by Tichý. We have also made a point of flagging various unsettled issues in the theory’s edifice and of - dicating the general direction in which we expect solutions are most likely to be found.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Hyperi
• Hyperintensional Logic
• Information
• Linguistic meaning
• Logic
• Multi-agent systems
• Natural language
• TIL
• Transparent Intensional Logic
• communication
• language
• semantic
• semantics

From the reviews:

“The text describes the origins and notations of a new symbolic system of variables and derives completed thoughts likely to be important to future research in Logic. The book is a welcome addition to any student’s logic library and or reading list at both graduate/undergraduate levels.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, November, 2013)

• Fac. Electric Engineering and, Informatic (FEI), Technical University Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

  Marie Duží

• Fac. Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

  Bjorn Jespersen

• Inst. Philosophy, Dept. Logic, ASCR Praha, Praha 1, Czech Republic

  Pavel Materna

Doc. RNDr. Marie Duží, CSc., is Associate Professor at VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. Her research interests include philosophical and mathematical logic, conceptual modelling, computer science (theory of information). In 2001 she was one of the invited lecturers in a seminar on Transparent Intensional Logic, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. In 2008 the Rector of VSB-Technical University Ostrava awarded her for the greatest contribution to the scientific and research progress of the entire university.

Dr Bjørn Jespersen, PhD., is currently Visiting Researcher at the Section of Philosophy, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology. Since the late 1990s Jespersen published forty research papers, frequently co-authored with Marie Duží or Pavel Materna, on Transparent Intensional Logic, as well as covering other issues in natural-language semantics, epistemology, and epistemic logic. He co-edited, together with V. Svoboda and C. Cheyne, the 900-page collection of Tichý’s collected papers, published in 2004.

PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc, is Professor of Logic at Masaryk University (Brno), and senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague). Materna is a member of the editorial board of the philosophical journals Filosofický casopis (Philosophical journal) and Organon F, member of the Internationale Bernard-Bolzano Gesellschaft, Salzburg, Austria, and Chairman of the National Committee for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

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