Justification Logic: Reasoning with Reasons

✍ Scribed by Sergei Artemov; Melvin Fitting

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 216
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Classical logic is concerned, loosely, with the behaviour of truths. Epistemic logic similarly is about the behaviour of known or believed truths. Justification logic is a theory of reasoning that enables the tracking of evidence for statements and therefore provides a logical framework for the reliability of assertions. This book, the first in the area, is a systematic account of the subject, progressing from modal logic through to the establishment of an arithmetic interpretation of intuitionistic logic. The presentation is mathematically rigorous but in a style that will appeal to readers from a wide variety of areas to which the theory applies. These include mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophical logic and epistemology, linguistics, and game theory.