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The past twenty years have witnessed extensive collaborative research between computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists. These interdisciplinary studies stem from the realization that researchers drawn from all fields are studying the same problem. Specifically, a common concern amongst researchers today is how logic sheds light on the nature of information. Ancient questions concerning how humans communicate, reason and decide, and modern questions about how computers should communicate, reason and decide are of prime interest to researchers in various disciplines. Words, Proofs and Diagrams is a collection of papers covering active research areas at the interface of logic, computer science, and linguistics. Readers of the volume will find traditional research on process logics, issues in formal semantics, and language processing. In addition, the volume also highlights a particularly new area where all three disciplines meet—the study of images and graphics as information carriers and the diagrammatic reasoning supported by them.

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Dave Barker-Plummer is a research scientist at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. David I. Beaver is assistant professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Johan van Benthem is professor of computer science at the University of Amsterdam and professor of philosophy at Stanford University. Patrick Scotto di Luzio earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Stanford University.

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