Logic, action, and cognition
Subtitle: essays in philosophical logic
By: edited by Eva Ejerhed and Sten Lindström.
Contributors: Ejerhed, Eva, 1941.; Lindström, Sten, 1945-; Umeå Colloquium on Dynamic Approaches in Logic, Languages, and Information (1993 : Umeå University, Sweden)
Series: Trends in logic ;; v. 2
Publisher: Kluwer Academic; Springer; Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Logic -- Congresses.; Cognition -- Congresses.; Act (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
Description: The present volume has its origin in a meeting of philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists that was held at Umea University, Sweden, September 24-26, 1993. The meeting was organized by the Department of Philosophy in cooperation with the Department of Linguistics, and it was called UmLLI-93, the Umea Colloquium on Dynamic Approaches in Logic, Language and Information. The papers included here fall into three broad categories. In the first part of the book, 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 in the tradition of Alchourron, Gardenfors and Makinson.

The third part, Cognition, concerns abstract questions about knowledge and truth as well as more concrete questions about the usefulness and tractability of various graphic representations of information. The book would be of special interest to Research Institutes in Computer Science, Researchers in Philosophical Logic, Deontic Logic, Applied Logic, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a colloquium called the Umeå Colloquium on Dynamic Approaches in Logic, Languages and Information at Umeå University, Sweden, Sept. 24-26, 1993.