Foundations of the Formal Sciences II: Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics

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Benedikt Löwe, Wolfgang Malzkorn, Thoralf Räsch
Springer Science & Business Media, Feb 28, 2003 - Philosophy - 302 pages

"Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) is a series of interdisciplinary conferences in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and linguistics. The main goal is to reestablish the traditionally strong links between these areas of research that have been lost in the past decades.

The second conference in the series had the subtitle "Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics" and brought speakers from all parts of the Formal Sciences together to give a holistic view of how mathematical methods can improve our philosophical and technical understanding of language and scientific discourse, ranging from the theoretical level up to applications in language recognition software.

Audience: This volume is of interest to all formal philosophers and theoretical linguists. In addition to that, logicians interested in the applications of their field and logic students in mathematics, computer science, philosophy and linguistics can use the volume to broaden their knowledge of applications of logic.

 

Contents

Views about the Structure of Scientific Theories
1
Life at the border
25
Bayesian Networks in Philosophy
39
Rational Decision
47
TwoDimensionalism and the Metaphysical Possibility of Zombies
55
Topics in Reverse Mathematics
63
The Logic of Intensional Predicates
89
The SoCalled Materially Valid Inferences and the Logic of Concepts
113
What is InputOutput Logic?
163
The GuptaBelnap FixedPoint Problem and the Theory of Clones of Functions
175
Situated Reasoning in Time about Time
185
Generic Ontology of Linguistic Classification
203
Techniques and Methods of Science from a Structuralist Point of View
213
Applications of Normalization
235
World Travelling and Mood Swings
257
Toward a Cognitive Architecture between Classicism and Connectionism
261

Analysis and Design from a Viewpoint of Information Flow
119
Features in Phonological Theory
123
New Semantics for Modal Predicate Logics
151
References
279
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