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Truth or Consequences

Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap

By: M. Dunn,Anil Gupta

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Truth or Consequences

Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap

By: M. Dunn,Anil Gupta

The essays in this collection are written by students, colleagues, and friends of Nuel Belnap to honor him on his sixtieth birthday. Our original plan was to include pieces from fonner students only, but we have deviated from this ever so slightly for a variety of personal and practical reasons. Belnap's research accomplishments are numerous and well known: He has founded (together with Alan Ross Anderson) a whole branch of logic known as "relevance logic." He has made contributions of fundamental importance to the logic of questions. His work in modal logic, fonnal pragmatics, and the theory of truth has been highly influential. And the list goes on. Belnap's accomplishments as a teacher are also distinguished and well known but, by virtue of the essential privacy of the teaching relationship, not so well understood. We would like to reflect a little on what makes him such an outstanding teacher.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0792309200

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9780792309208

Facing the Future

Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

By: Nuel Belnap,Michael Perloff,Ming Xu

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Facing the Future

Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

By: Nuel Belnap,Michael Perloff,Ming Xu

Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a theory that makes indeterminism not only intelligible but illuminating. Tools from philosophy of language and philosophical logic help generate a full-scale account of agents "seeing to it that." The authors then proceed to clarify a variety of action-related topics such as determinism vs. indeterminism, imperatives, promises, strategies, joint agency, "could have done otherwise," deontic constructions, and assertions about a not yet settled future.

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Oxford University Press

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0195350073

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9780195350074

Branching Space-Times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

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Branching Space-Times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

This book develops a rigorous theory of indeterminism as a local and modal concept. Its crucial insight is that our world contains events or processes with alternative, really possible outcomes. The theory aims at clarifying what this assumption involves, and it does it in two ways. First, it provides a mathematically rigorous framework for local and modal indeterminism. Second, we support that theory by spelling out the philosophically relevant consequences of this formulation and by showing its fruitful applications in metaphysics. To this end, we offer a formal analysis of modal correlations and of causation, which is applicable in indeterministic and non-local contexts as well. We also propose a rigorous theory of objective single-case probabilities, intended to represent degrees of possibility. In a third step, we link our theory to current physics, investigating how local and modal indeterminism relates to issues in the foundations of physics, in particular, quantum non-locality and spatio-temporal relativity. The book also ventures into the philosophy of time, showing how the theory's resources can be used to explicate the dynamic concept of the past, present, and future based on local indeterminism"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190884312

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9780190884314

The Revision Theory of Truth

By: Anil Gupta,Nuel D. Belnap

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The Revision Theory of Truth

By: Anil Gupta,Nuel D. Belnap

In this rigorous investigation into the logic of truth Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap explain how the concept of truth works in both ordinary and pathological contexts. The latter include, for instance, contexts that generate Liar Paradox. Their central claim is that truth is a circular concept. In support of this claim they provide a widely applicable theory (the "revision theory") of circular concepts. Under the revision theory, when truth is seen as circular both its ordinary features and its pathological features fall into a simple understandable pattern. The Revision Theory of Truth is unique in placing truth in the context of a general theory of definitions. This theory makes sense of arbitrary systems of mutually interdependent concepts, of which circular concepts, such as truth, are but a special case.

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334

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MIT Press

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0262071444

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9780262071444

Entailment, Vol. II

The Logic of Relevance and Necessity

By: Alan Ross Anderson,Nuel D. Belnap, Jr.,J. Michael Dunn

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Entailment, Vol. II

The Logic of Relevance and Necessity

By: Alan Ross Anderson,Nuel D. Belnap, Jr.,J. Michael Dunn

In spite of a powerful tradition, more than two thousand years old, that in a valid argument the premises must be relevant to the conclusion, twentieth-century logicians neglected the concept of relevance until the publication of Volume I of this monumental work. Since that time relevance logic has achieved an important place in the field of philosophy: Volume II of Entailment brings to a conclusion a powerful and authoritative presentation of the subject by most of the top people working in the area. Originally the aim of Volume II was simply to cover certain topics not treated in the first volume--quantification, for example--or to extend the coverage of certain topics, such as semantics. However, because of the technical progress that has occurred since the publication of the first volume, Volume II now includes other material. The book contains the work of Alasdair Urquhart, who has shown that the principal sentential systems of relevance logic are undecidable, and of Kit Fine, who has demonstrated that, although the first-order systems are incomplete with respect to the conjectured constant domain semantics, they are still complete with respect to a semantics based on "arbitrary objects." Also presented is important work by the other contributing authors, who are Daniel Cohen, Steven Giambrone, Dorothy L. Grover, Anil Gupta, Glen Helman, Errol P. Martin, Michael A. McRobbie, and Stuart Shapiro. Robert G. Wolf's bibliography of 3000 items is a valuable addition to the volume. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400887070

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Branching Space-times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel D. Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

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Branching Space-times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel D. Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

This monograph presents a detailed exposition of the formal theory of Branching Space-Times (BST). The theory presented here by Nuel Belnap, Thomas Müller, and Tomasz Placek describes how real possibilities can be anchored in a spatio-temporal world that is rudimentarily relativistic.

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0190884347

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Branching Space-Times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

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Theory and Applications

By: Nuel Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

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Facing the Future

Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

By: Nuel D. Belnap,Michael Perloff,Ming Xu

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Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

By: Nuel D. Belnap,Michael Perloff,Ming Xu

In this elucidating work, the authors attempt to construct a logical analysis of human actions, focusing on those actions based on choice. Using their examination of "seeing to it that," they investigate a large number of topics, including imperatives, deontic logic, strategies, determinism, and promising assertion. One of the work's provocative conclusions is that one, actual future does not exist; instead, all possible futures are on par with one another.

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0195138783

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Truth or Consequences

Truth or Consequences

Facing the Future

Facing the Future

Branching Space-Times

Branching Space-Times

The Revision Theory of Truth

The Revision Theory of Truth

Entailment, Vol. II

Entailment, Vol. II

Branching Space-times

Branching Space-times

Branching Space-Times

Branching Space-Times

Facing the Future

Facing the Future

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