New Essays in Free Logic

by Lambert, Karel; Morscher, Edgar; Hieke, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781402002168
• ISBN10: 1402002165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume contains a collection of recent papers on Free Logic which cover a wide range of topics. These topics show that Free Logic is applied not only in traditional philosophical areas, but also in various contexts of modern formal logic as well as in the discussion of theoretical aspects of programming. Part I of the book covers theories of names and definite descriptions. Part II contains papers on various topics in the logic of modalities. Part III is devoted to semantics and programming. In part IV Free Logic is used to analyse and discuss topics from the history of philosophy. In addition, one of the founders of Free Logic, Karel Lambert, not only contributes an article to this volume, but he also comments the papers of all the other authors. So this book will be of interest not only to philosophers and logicians, but also to computer scientists and researchers interested in foundational aspects of computer programming.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Free Logic: A Fifty-Year Past and an Open Future	1	(36)
Edgar Morscher
Peter Simons
PART I NAMES AND DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS
Free Logic and Definite Descriptions	37	(12)
Karel Lambert
Calculi of Names: Free and Modal	49	(20)
Peter Simons
PART II MODALITIES
Free Logic and Quantification in Syntactic Modal Contexts	69	(18)
Paul Schweizer
Substitution, Quantifiers and Identity in Modal Logic	87	(30)
Silvio Ghilardi
Free Epistemic Logic	117	(10)
Wolfgang Lenzen
PART III SEMANTICS AND PROGRAMMING
Supervaluational Free Logic and the Logic of Information Growth	127	(20)
Juan Barba Escriba
``No Input, No Output'' Logic	147	(10)
Scott Lehmann
Free Logic in Program Specification and Verification	157	(40)
Raymond D. Gumb
PART IV HISTORY
Existence and Reference in Medieval Logic	197	(30)
Gyula Klima
Can Meinongian Logic Be Free?	227	(12)
Jacek Pasniczek
PART V COMMENTS
Comments	239	(14)
Karel Lambert
Index of Persons	253