Overview

This volume contains a collection of recent papers on Free Logic which cover a wide range of topics. These topics show that Free Logic is applied not only in traditional philosophical areas, but also in various contexts of modern formal logic as well as in the discussion of theoretical aspects of programming. Part I of the book covers theories of names and definite descriptions. Part II contains papers on various topics in the logic of modalities. Part III is devoted to semantics and programming. In part IV Free Logic is used to analyse and discuss topics from the history of philosophy. In addition, one of the founders of Free Logic, Karel Lambert, not only contributes an article to this volume, but he also comments the papers of all the other authors. So this book will be of interest not only to philosophers and logicians, but also to computer scientists and researchers interested in foundational aspects of computer programming.

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Author:   E. Morscher ,  A. Hieke
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789048159154

ISBN 10:   9048159156
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   09 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface. Free Logic: A Fifty-Year Past and an Open Future; E. Morscher, P. Simons. Part I: Names and Definite Descriptions. Free Logic and Definite Descriptions; K. Lambert. Calculi of Names: Free and Modal; P. Simons. Part II: Modalities. Free Logic and Quantification in Syntactic Modal Contexts; P. Schweizer. Substitution, Quantifiers and Identity in Modal Logic; S. Ghilardi. Free Epistemic Logic; W. Lenzen. Part III: Semantics and Programming. Supervaluational Free Logic and the Logic of Information Growth; J.B. Escribá. `No Input, No Output' Logic; S. Lehmann. Free Logic in Program Specification and Verification; R.D. Gumb. Part IV: History. Existence and Reference in Medieval Logic; G. Klima. Can Meinongian Logic Be Free? J. Pasniczek. Part V: Comments. Comments; K. Lambert. Index of persons.

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