
Conditionals: From Philosophy to Computer Science
From Philosophy to Computer Science
Clarendon Press
Published on 30. November 1995
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-19-853861-5 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding the role of deduction in human reasoning has been an important activity in philosophy, logic, and more recetnly artificial intelligence. The basic patter of this kind of reasoning can be represented by conditional expressions of the form `if...then.' There are various kinds of conditionals that fit into this pattern, such as counterfactual conditionals (`if it were the case that A then it would be the case that B'), causal conditionals (`if A then causally B'), action conditionals (`if A then B is obtained'), conditional obligations (`if A then B should be brought about'), generic conditionals (`if A then normally B')etc. The common pattern to all these constructions is their conditional form which connects the antecedetn to the consequent in such a way that the antecedent represents a condition (or a context) for the consequent.
The general question arises: is it possible to give a formal logical account of these constructions? This question is considered in this volume by a group of internationally recognized pure and applied logicians and computer scientists. Their papers reflect all the current research in this subject, and should serve as a guide for future development.
The general question arises: is it possible to give a formal logical account of these constructions? This question is considered in this volume by a group of internationally recognized pure and applied logicians and computer scientists. Their papers reflect all the current research in this subject, and should serve as a guide for future development.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
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Professional and scholarly
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line figures
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
734 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-853861-5 (9780198538615)
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, all at Languages et Systemes Informatiques, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. The emperor's new clothes: some recurring problems in the formal analysis of counterfactuals ; 3. A unified view of consequence relation, belief revision, and conditional logic ; 4. Defeasible logics: demarcation and affinities ; 5. Commonsense entailment: a conditional logic for some generics ; 6. The Ramsey test revisited ; 7. Epistemic conditionals, snakes and stars ; 8. Conditional action ; 9. Of the revision of conditional belief sets ; 10. Conditional objects, possibility theory and default roles ; 11. Conditional implications and non-monotonic consequence