Logic, Action and Cognition
Essays in Philosophical Logic
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 1997
Book
Hardback
IX, 233 pages
978-0-7923-4560-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is divided into three parts. In the first part, Action, are collected papers that concern the formal theory of action, the logic of norms, and the theory of rational decision. The papers in the second part, Belief Change, concern the theory of belief dynamics. The third part, Cognition, concerns Fitch's knowability paradox as well as problems concerning the graphic representation of information.
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Series
Edition
1., 997
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
IX, 233 p., 2 s/w Abbildungen
index
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
541 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-4560-2 (9780792345602)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-5524-3
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Content
Preface; E. Ejerhed, S. Lindström. 1: Action. On Action and Agency; R. Hilpinen. Delta Logic and Brown's Logic of Ability; K. Segerberg. Action and Deontology; J. Czelakowski. Prima Facie Oughtness vs. Oughtness All Things Considered in Deontic Logic: A Chisholmian Approach; L. Åqvist. Wise Choice: On Dynamic Decision-Making Without Independence; W. Rabinowicz. 2: Belief Change. Closure-Invariant Rationality Postulates; S.O. Hansson. All Other Things Being Equal: On a Notion of Inertia in Conditional Logic; L. Fariñas del Cerro, A. Herzig. Drawing Inferences from Conditionals; H. Rott. 3: Cognition. Situations, Truth and Knowability: A Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Paradox by Fitch; S. Lindström. Assigning Information to Modalities: Comparing Graphical Treatments of the Syllogisms; K. Stenning, R. Tobin. Index of Names.