| Handbook of Philosophical Logic 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Gabbay, Dov M. (Editor), Guenthner, Franz (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402019661 ISBN-13: 9781402019661 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: The first edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic (four volumes) was published in the period 1983-1989 and has proven to be an invaluable reference work to both students and researchers in formal philosophy, language and logic. The second edition of the Handbook is intended to comprise some 18 volumes and will provide a very up-to-date authoritative, in-depth coverage of all major topics in philosophical logic and its applications in many cutting-edge fields relating to computer science, language, argumentation, etc. The volumes will no longer be as topic-oriented as with the first edition because of the way the subject has evolved over the last 15 years or so. However the volumes will follow some natural groupings of chapters. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Logic - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Computers | Speech & Audio Processing |
| Dewey: 160 |
| LCCN: 2001029838 |
| Series: Handbook of Philosophical Logic, *Second Edition* |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.56" W x 9.68" (1.49 lbs) 323 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook. It has been over 15 years since the publication of the first edition and there have been great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since then. The first edition has proved invaluable to generations of students and researchers in formal philosophy and language, as well as to consumers of logic in many applied areas. The main logic article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1999 has described the first edition as 'the best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic'. We are confident that the second edition will prove to be just as good The first edition was the second handbook published for the logic commu- nity. It followed the North Holland one volume Handbook of Mathematical Logic, published in 1977, edited by the late Jon Barwise. The four volume Handbook of Philosophical Logic, published 1983-1989 came at a fortunate temporal junction at the evolution of logic. This was the time when logic was gaining ground in computer science and artificial intelligence circles. These areas were under increasing commercial pressure to provide devices which help and/or replace the human in his daily activity. This pressure required the use of logic in the modelling of human activity and organisa- tion on the one hand and to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program constructs on the other. |