David Makinson on classical methods for non-classical problems [electronic resource] / Sven Ove Hansson, editor.
Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951- editor of compilation.
2014
BC6 .D38 2014eb
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David Makinson on classical methods for non-classical problems [electronic resource] / Sven Ove Hansson, editor.
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9789400777583
9400777582
9789400777590 electronic book
9400777590 electronic book
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Dordrecht : Springer, [2014]
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English
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BC6 .D38 2014eb
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160
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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 unsually explicit statement on his views on the (limited but important) role of logic in philosophy.
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Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951- editor of compilation.
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Outstanding contributions to logic ; 3.
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Preface
Contributors
Introductory
Chapter 1. Sven Ove Hansson: Preview
Chapter 2. Sven Ove Hansson and Peter Gärdenfors: David Makinson and the extension of classical logic
Chapter 3. David Makinson: A tale of five cities
I. Logic of Belief Change
Chapter 4. Hans Rott and Sven Ove Hansson: Safe contraction revisited
Chapter 5. Pavlos Peppas: A panorama of iterated revision
Chapter 6. Wolfgang Spohn: AGM, ranking theory and the many ways to cope with examples
Chapter 7. Edwin Mares: Liars, lotteries and prefaces: two paraconsistent theories of belief revision
Chapter 8. Rohit Parikh: Epistemic reasoning in life and literature
II. Uncertain Reasoning
Chapter 9. James Hawthorne: New Horn rules for probabilistic consequence: Is O+ enough?
Chapter 10. Karl Schlechta: Non-monotonic logic: preferential vs. algebraic semantics
Chapter 11. Hykel Hosni: Towards a Bayesian theory of second-order uncertainty: lessons from non-standard logics
III. Normative Systems
Chapter 12. Audun Stolpe: Abstract interfaces of input/output logic
Chapter 13. Xavier Parent, Dov Gabbay and Leendert van der Torre: Intuitionistic basis for input/output logic
Chapter 14. Jörg Hansen: Reasoning about permission and obligation
Chapter 15. John Horty: Norm change in the common law
IV. Classical Resources
Chapter 16. David Makinson: Intelim rules for classical connectives
Chapter 17. David Makinson: Relevance logic as a conservative extension of classical logic
V. Responses
Chapter 18. David Makinson: Reflections on contributions
Bibliographical
David Makinson's publications
Index.

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