Logic, Action and Cognition : Essays in Philosophical Logic

✍ Scribed by Ejerhed, Eva; Lindström, Sten (eds.)

• Publisher: Imprint, Springer, Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: Trends in Logic Studia Logica Library, 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is divided into three parts. In the first part, Action, are collected papers that concern the formal theory of action, the logic of norms, and the theory of rational decision. The papers in the second part, Belief Change, concern the theory of belief dynamics. The third part, Cognition, concerns Fitch's knowability paradox as well as problems concerning the graphic representation of information.

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In the first part of the book, Action, we have collected papers that concern the formal theory of action, the logic of nonns, and the theory of rational decision. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: I Action --
On action and agency --
Delta logic and Brown's logic of ability --
Action and deontology --
Prima facie oughtness vs. oughtness all things considered in deontic logic: a Chisholmian approach --
Wise choice: on dynamic decision-making without independence --
II Belief Change --
Closure-invariant rationality postulates --
All Other things being equal: On a notion of inertia in conditional logic --
Drawing inferences from conditionals --
III Cognition --
Situations, truth and knowability: a situation-theoretic analysis of a paradox by Fitch --
Assigning information to modalities: comparing graphical treatments of the syllogism --
Notes on the contributors --
Index of names.

✦ Subjects

Logic -- Congresses.;Cognition -- Congresses.;Act (Philosophy) -- Congresses.;Act (Philosophy);Cognition.;Logic.