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Conditionals : from philosophy to computer science

Title
Conditionals : from philosophy to computer science / edited by G. Crocco, L. Fariñas del Cerro, and A. Herzig.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Crocco, G. (Gabriella)
  • Fariñas del Cerro, Luis.
  • Herzig, Andreas, 1949-
Description
viii, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
Studies in logic and computation ; 5
Uniform Title
Studies in logic and computation ; 5.
Subject
  • Conditionals (Logic)
  • Language and languages > Philosophy
  • Language and logic
  • Logic
  • Konditional
  • Informatik
  • Voorwaardelijke zinnen
  • Logica
  • Informatica
  • Conditionnel (logique)
  • Déduction (logique)
  • Langage et logique
  • Philosophie du langage
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The emperor's new clothes: some recurring problems in the formal analysis of counterfactuals -- 3. A unified view of consequence relation, belief revision, and conditional logic -- 4. Defeasible logics: demarcation and affinities -- 5. Commonsense entailment: a conditional logic for some generics -- 6. The Ramsey test revisited -- 7. Epistemic conditionals, snakes and stars -- 8. Conditional action -- 9. Of the revision of conditional belief sets -- 10. Conditional objects, possibility theory and default roles -- 11. Conditional implications and non-monotonic consequence.
ISBN
  • 0198538618
  • 9780198538615
LCCN
96160574
OCLC
  • ocm35639205
  • 35639205
  • SCSB-9575657
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library