The age of alternative logics
Subtitle: assessing philosophy of logic and mathematics today
By: editors, Shahid Rahman, John Symons.
Contributors: Rahman, Shahid.; Symons, John.
Series: Logic, epistemology and the unity of science -- v. 3
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781402050114
Subjects: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Mathematics -- Philosophy; Proof theory; Categories (Philosophy); Logique symbolique et mathématique -- Congrès; Logique mathématique non classique -- Congrès; Connaissance, Théorie de la -- Congrès
Genres: Congrès.
Description: In the last century developments in mathematics, philosophy, physics, computer science, economics and linguistics have proven important for the development of logic. There has been an influx of new ideas, concerns, and logical systems reflecting a great variety of reasoning tasks in the sciences. This volume reflects the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic and science. It presents contributions from the world's leading scholars under the following headings: - Proof, Knowledge and Computation - Truth Values beyond Bivalence - Category-Theoretic Structures - Independence, Evaluation Games, and Imperfect Information - Dialogue and Pragmatics The contents exemplify the liveliness of modern perspectives on the philosophy of logic and mathematics and demonstrate the growth of the discipline. It describes new trends, possible developments for research and new issues not normally raised in the standard agenda of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. It transforms rigid classical partitions into a more open field for improvisation.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index