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The IfColog Journal of Logics and their Applications covers all areas of pure and applied logic, broadly construed. This Journal is open access, and available in both printed and electronic formats. It is published by College Publications, on behalf of IfCoLoG (www.ifcolog.net). Edition Description

Arguments have often been a topic of interest in the psychology of communication, typically with an emphasis on their persuasive features - an emphasis largely shared by at least one of the classical disciplines in argumentation studies, namely, rhetoric. Nonetheless, contemporary argumentation theory has mostly steered clear of psychological contributions, with only few (albeit notable) exceptions. While there are both historical and theoretical reasons for this lack of interaction, many nowadays seem to think it is past time we bury the hatchet for good, and recent years have witnessed a flourish of cognitive approaches to the study of argument. This volume aims to take stock of these recent developments, as well as paving the way to new promising directions of inquiry. In doing so, it also manages to organize this rich landscape around five main sub-themes: socio-cognitive models of argumentation, issues of rationality (or lack thereof), the study of biases and fallacies, the role of argumentation in persuasion (and vice versa), and how learning and development affect our argumentative attitudes.

Soyons logiques est une invitation à double sens. Bien que la logique désigne couramment une disposition d'esprit partagée par tout un chacun, cette disposition prête à confusion dès lors que l'on s'interroge sur ses sources théoriques. Le présent volume propose treize articles de logique portant sur plusieurs aspects de la discipline logique et de ses méthodes, notamment le formalisme, la théorie des oppositions, la vérité mathématique et l'histoire de la logique. Ce volume a été préparé avec le souci pédagogique de parler au plus grand nombre des lecteurs de logique et de philosophie."Let¿s be Logical" is a double invitation. Although logic often refers to a disposition of mind that we all share, this disposition might be confused once its theoretical sources are questioned. The present volume offers thirteen articles that address various aspects of the discipline of logic and its methods, notably formalism, the theory of opposition, mathematical truth, and history of logic. This volume has been prepared with the pedagogical concern of making it accessible to a wide audience of logic and philosophy readers. This book has contributions that are in both French and English.

Cette analyse vise à concevoir des syst èmes de r évision dans lesquels l''acquisition de connaissances et les aspects interactifs de la signifi cation sont saisis comme un jeu de questions et de r éponses par rapport à un ensemble initial d''hypoth èses exprim é dans le langage-objet. Se situant à l''intersection des approches de la th éorie des types de Per Martin-Löf, de l''approche dialogique et de la th éorie de la r évision des croyances, cette investigation heuristique a pour objectif principal de proposer une analyse dialogique de la r évision des croyances dans le contexte de la th eorie des types de Martin-Löf. Ce processus de r évision s''effectue par un d éploiement progressif de contenus hypoth étiques dans un contexte d''interaction en cr édibilisant l''information que re çoit l''agent. Cette étude donne également la possibilit é d''exprimer avec aisance les aspects interactifs de la signi fication dans les tableaux s émantiques en mettant ainsi en exergue les notions d''actes de langage par la connexion entre dialogues et tableaux dans le contexte de la r évision des croyances.

In the short span of a few essays, this book takes the reader on a trip from the historical roots of the current financial architecture to the imaginable futures one can envision for it, only if there is the political will to change it. If we accept that, as put by the editors, financial markets' marginal imperfections are rather endemic pathologies, the consequences for the financial architecture have Copernican proportions. Every scholar and practitioner interested in the problems posed by the global economy at a critical moment when it has reached what looks like a dead end, will appreciate the refreshing inspiration offered by the authors that a star editing team has put together.Aldo Caliari, Director, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, Center of Concern. The stagnation that we suffer since 2008 was originated by the global financial crisis of a system that is outside the control of national governments and has a dynamic of its own. In a few chapters, the book offers a historical account and a perspective of what could be a more rational financial system if there were political will to change it. All those interested in this topic will find in the ideas presented by this combination of authors, a deep understanding of the subject and inspiration for future research.Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, UNAM, Mexico. As the book authors argue, the financial institutional settings were profoundly modified in the 1970s, imposing new instruments, new mechanism, new institutions that revolutionized the world of finance, missing a central characteristic: financial regulations. In this context the book's conclusions are of outmost importance: taxes on financial activity, new ways of financial accounting, sovereign debts regulators as the new central bank supervisions are vital to overcome the present crisis and set the grounds for a new period of economic growth and development. Noemy Levy, Professor at the Faculty of Economics, UNAM, Mexico. Since the last 2008 economic crisis the implementation of a new financial institutionality is taking too much time, showing the current correlation of power. The discussions at multinational level require more action and inputs as those in this book. Congratulations!Katiuska King Mantilla from the Government of Ecuador.

The Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS) was founded in 1952 with the aim of promoting and encouraging research in logic and philosophy of science inItaly. On 18--20 June 2014, the Society held its Triennial International Conference, SLFS 14, at the University "Roma TRE". The conference was divided into several sessions, each centered on one of the main current topics in logic and philosophy of science, with a special focus on interdisciplinary approaches to logical and epistemological issues in the foundations of special sciences (both natural, social and human). The 100 contributed papers underwent a further selection, resulting in the 28 papers that are published here, subdivided into three macro areas: Epistemology and General Philosophy of Science; Logic and Philosophy of Logic; Philosophy of Natural Sciences.These articles offer a representative sample of the trends and developments of the contemporary research in logic and the philosophy of science in Italy, as well as reflecting the direction and themes that characterise the current international debate in these disciplines.

Logic deals with the fundamental notions oftruth and falsity. Modal logic arose from the philosophical study of "modes of truth" with the two most common modes being "necessarily true" and "possibly true". Research in modal logic now spans the spectrum from philosophy, computer science and mathematics using techniques from relational structures, universal algebra, topology, and proof theory.These proceedings record the papers presented at the 2016 conference on Advances in Modal Logic, a biennial conference series with an aim to report on important new developments in pure and applied modal logic. As indicated above, there are new developments in using modal logic to reason about obligations, about programs, about time, about combinations of modal logics and even about negation itself.

El mundo gira en torno a la innovación. Se innova en la cocina, en la música, en el arte, en el comercio, en las formas de organización social, en la estructura familiar; en fin, la lista sería interminable, no hay ámbito de nuestra sociedad en el que no se hable de innovación. Dicho de otra manera, se vive la innovación como un avance en el sentido positivo de mejora, asociado además a una idea inconsciente de calidad. De manera general, se puede decir que innovación y creatividad forman parte de la naturaleza humana, y hacen posible la supervivencia de la especie en situaciones precarias y difíciles. En definitiva, están en la base de la evolución.Una frase que se ha hecho famosa entre los académicos es publish or perish (publicar o perecer), en el sentido de que, si no se publica, el trabajo que uno está haciendo no existe para el medio académico e investigador. Posiblemente, esta máxima continúa siendo válida, pero hay otra que se ha impuesto y no solo en la academia sino en todos los ámbitos de la vida y de la cultura, a saber: "innovar para sobrevivir".El objetivo del libro consiste en analizar los conceptos de innovación, invención, descubrimiento y progreso desde una perspectiva epistemológica y metodológica a partir del nuevo estado y contexto en el que se desarrolla la práctica científica. Para ello debemos examinar el significado de estos conceptos en sus diversos contextos de investigación, tanto básica como aplicada. La creatividad actuará como telón de fondo para la identificación y análisis de dichos conceptos. En cuanto al progreso, repasaremos sus indicadores en los distintos ámbitos de la actividad científica.

Peter K. Schotch is Emeritus Munro Professor of Metaphysics at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is co-founder of the Canadian School of paraconsistency known as perservationism, and has written papers in many areas of philosophical logic particularly many valued logic and epistemic & deontic logic.This collection contains papers written by Peter's students and colleagues who have been associated with him during his forty-plus years of philosophical enquiry.

This book deals with a problem that has been discussed quite a lot, both in the academic and the halachic literature, the problem of partitioning. The fundamental and well-known partition problem in the Talmud is the partition of lost property ("Two hold a garment") found in Baba Metzia 2a, and its generalisation ("n hold a garment"). The Talmud also deals with the problem of division of the estate of a deceased among creditors in Ketubot 93a.Our aim is to organise previous work, give a complete picture of the domain and add our original work. We specify what the basic assumptions are, similarities and dissimilarities between the problems and the various approaches to their solution. We give general case algorithms for these solutions. Where necessary we also prove the existence and uniqueness of the solutions.The book is partly in English and partly in Hebrew

Originating as an attempt to provide solid logical foundations for fuzzy set theory, and motivated also by philosophical and computational problems of vagueness and imprecision, Mathematical Fuzzy Logic (MFL) has become a significant subfield of mathematical logic. Research in this area focuses on many-valued logics with linearly ordered truth values and has yielded elegant and deep mathematical theories and challenging problems, thus continuing to attract an ever increasing number of researchers.This handbook provides, through its several volumes, an up-to-date systematic presentation of the best-developed areas of MFL. Its intended audience is researchers working on MFL or related fields, that may use the text as a reference book, and anyone looking for a comprehensive introduction to MFL. This handbook will be useful not only for readers interested in pure mathematical logic, but also for those interested in logical foundations of fuzzy set theory or in a mathematical apparatus suitable for dealing with some philosophical and linguistic issues related to vagueness.This third volume starts with three chapters on semantics of fuzzy logics, namely, on the structure of linearly ordered algebras, on semantic games, and on Ulam-Rényi games; it continues with an introduction to fuzzy logics with evaluated syntax, a survey of fuzzy description logics, and a study of probability on MV-algebras; and it ends with a philosophical chapter on the role of fuzzy logics in theories of vagueness.

This is a volume containing papers honoring Patrick Suppes (1922-2014). All contributors have worked directly with Suppes or/and with his ideas. The book also contains one of the last papers by Suppes (co-authored by two of his collaborators). The work of Suppes touches many different areas, ranging from meteorology to physics, through logic, mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, education, painting, but he was first of all and above all a philosopher, always questioning, but not in vain. There are not many philosophers who can be proud of having written influential math textbooks, contributed decisively to the philosophical foundations of science, helped to develop research in real labs, promoted new forms o education (computer-assisted learning and the EGPY - Education Program for Gifted Youth). Since the range of interest of Suppes was very broad, so is the variety of topics dealt with in this volume. The work of a researcher is certainly not limited to his own writings, but also has to be appreciated through the work of the people he has been working with and influenced. From this point of view the work of Suppes is very impressive, and the present book contributes to show that. This is a follow up of a special issue of the journal Synthese, New Directions in the Foundations of Science, edited by Béziau and Krause, after a meeting they organized with Suppes in Florianópolis (Brazil) in 2002 for his 80th birthday. Jean-Yves Béziau worked with Suppes at Stanford University for two years (2000 and 2001) and has been continuously working in the Suppes tradition of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, which emphasizes structures and models. Décio Krause has used Suppes' approach to the axiomatization of scientific theories in many fields. With J.C.M. Magalhães, he presented a "Suppes predicate" for genetics and natural selection and with S. French he developed a Suppes predicate for quantum field theories via Fock spaces.