Logic, Action and Cognition Essays in Philosophical Logic

Logic, Action and Cognition Essays in Philosophical Logic / edited by Eva Ejerhed, Sten Lindström.

The present volume has its origin in a meeting of philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists that was held at Umea University, Sweden, September 24-26, 1993. The meeting was organized by the Department of Philosophy in cooperation with the Department of Linguistics, and it was called UmLLI-93,...

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Other Authors: Ejerhed, Eva (Editor), Lindström, Sten (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 2
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Subjects:
Logic.
Artificial intelligence.
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Table of Contents:
  • I Action
  • On action and agency
  • Delta logic and Brown’s logic of ability
  • Action and deontology
  • Prima facie oughtness vs. oughtness all things considered in deontic logic: a Chisholmian approach
  • Wise choice: on dynamic decision-making without independence
  • II Belief Change
  • Closure-invariant rationality postulates
  • All Other things being equal: On a notion of inertia in conditional logic
  • Drawing inferences from conditionals
  • III Cognition
  • Situations, truth and knowability: a situation-theoretic analysis of a paradox by Fitch
  • Assigning information to modalities: comparing graphical treatments of the syllogism
  • Notes on the contributors
  • Index of names.

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