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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 co-opersation with the Department of Linguistics, and it was called UmLLI-93, the Umea Colloquium on Dynamic Approaches in Logic, Language and Information. The papers included here fall into three broad categories. In the first part of the book, 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 in the tradition of Alchourron, Gardenfors and Makinson. The third part, Cognition, concerns abstract questions about knowledge and truth as well as more concrete questions about the usefulness and tractability of various graphic representations of information. The book sould be of special interest to research institutes in computer science, researchers in philosophical logic, deontic logic, applied logic, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.

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Author:   Eva Ejerhed ,  Sten Lindstrom
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Volume:   v. 2
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780792345602

ISBN 10:   0792345606
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 July 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface; E. Ejerhed, S.. Lindstrom. 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. Aqvist. 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. Farinas 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. Lindstrom. Assigning Information to Modalities: Comparing Graphical Treatments of the Syllogisms; K. Stenning, R. Tobin.

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