ISBN10: 1402063237, ISBN13: 9781402063237, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - theywereextensivelydiscussedbyallauthorsina3-dayHandbookmeeting. These are: - a chapter on non-monotonic logic - a chapter on combinatory logic and -calculus We felt at the time (1979) that non-monotonic logic was not ready for a chapter yet and that combinatory logic and -calculus was too far re- 1 moved. Non-monotonic logic is now a very major area of philosop- cal logic, alongside default logics, labelled deductive systems, bring l- ics, multi-dimensional, multimodal and substructural logics. Intensive - examinations of fragments of classical logic have produced fresh insights, including at time decision procedures and equivalence with non-classical systems. Perhaps the most impressive achievement of philosophical logic as arising inthepastdecadehasbeenthee ectivenegotiationofresearchpartnerships with fallacy theory, informal logic and argumentation theory, attested to by the Amsterdam Conference in Logic and Argumentation in 1995, and the two Bonn Conferences in Practical Reasoning in 1996 and 1997. These subjects are becoming more and more useful in agent theory and intelligent and reactive databases. Finally, fteen years after the start of the Handbook project, I would like to take this opportunity to put forward my current views about logic in computer science, computational linguistics and arti cial intelligence. In the ...
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Springer, Date: 2007. Hardcover. New. 2007. Springer ISBN 1402063237 9781402063237 [IN]