Collected Papers of Stig Kanger With Essays on His Life and Work

by Kanger, Stig; Lindstrom, Sten; Sliwinski, Rysiek

• ISBN13: 9781402000218
• ISBN10: 1402000219
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Stig Kanger (1924-1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy. Kanger's dissertation Provability in Logic , 1957, contained significant results in proof theory as well as the first fully worked out model-theoretic interpretation of quantified modal logic. It is generally accepted nowadays that Kanger was one of the originators of possible worlds semantics for modal logic. Kanger's most original achievements were in the areas of general proof theory, the semantics of modal and deontic logic, and the logical analysis of the concept of rights. He also contributed to action theory, preference logic, and the theory of measurement. This is the first of two volumes dedicated to the work of Stig Kanger. The present volume is a complete collection of Kanger's philosophical papers. The second volume contains critical essays on Kanger's work, as well as biographical essays on Kanger written by colleagues and friends.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
PURE LOGIC
A Note on Partial Postulate Sets for Propositional Logic	3	(5)
Provability in Logic	8	(34)
The Morning Star Paradox	42	(10)
A Note on Quantification and Modalities	52	(2)
On the Characterization of Modalities	54	(4)
A Simplified Proof Method for Elementary Logic	58	(7)
Equivalent Theories	65	(5)
An Algebraic Logic Calculus	70	(6)
Equational Calculi and Automatic Demonstration	76	(6)
Entailment	82	(12)
The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging, Regained Again	94	(5)
APPLIED LOGIC: OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND ACTION
New Foundations for Ethical Theory	99	(21)
Rights and Parliamentarism	120	(26)
Law and Logic	146	(24)
Some Aspects on the Concept of Influence	170	(9)
On Realization of Human Rights	179	(7)
Unavoidability	186	(6)
Unavoidability. Appendix	192	(7)
APPLIED LOGIC: PRFERENCE AND CHOICE
Preference Logic	199	(10)
A Note on Preference-Logic	209	(2)
Choice and Modality	211	(3)
Choice Based on Preference	214	(17)
Decision by Democratic Procedure	231	(8)
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Measurement: An Essay in Philosophy of Science	239	(35)
The Notion of a Phoneme	274	(5)
Published Writings of Stig Kanger	279	(6)
Index of Names	285	(4)
Subject Index	289