Foundations of the Formal Sciences II: Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and LinguisticsBenedikt Löwe, Wolfgang Malzkorn, Thoralf Räsch "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 |