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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255219903321

Autore

Pacuit Eric

Titolo

Neighborhood Semantics for Modal Logic / / by Eric Pacuit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-67149-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 154 p. 17 illus.)

Collana

Short Textbooks in Logic, , 2522-5499

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Logic

Computer science - Mathematics

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Engineering mathematics

Engineering - Data processing

Computer science

Mathematics of Computing

Mathematical Logic and Foundations

Mathematical and Computational Engineering Applications

Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and Motivation -- Subset Spaces -- Language and Semantics -- Why Non-Normal Modal Logic? -- Core Theory -- Richer Languages.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to the basic techniques and results of neighborhood semantics for modal logic. In addition to presenting the relevant technical background, it highlights both the pitfalls and potential uses of neighborhood models – an interesting class of mathematical structures that were originally introduced to provide a semantics for weak systems of modal logic (the so-called non-normal modal logics). In addition, the book discusses a broad range of topics, including standard modal logic results (i.e., completeness, decidability and definability); bisimulations for neighborhood models and other model-theoretic constructions;



comparisons with other semantics for modal logic (e.g., relational models, topological models, plausibility models); neighborhood semantics for first-order modal logic, applications in game theory (coalitional logic and game logic); applications in epistemic logic (logics of evidence and belief); and non-normal modal logics with dynamic modalities. The book can be used as the primary text for seminars on philosophical logic focused on non-normal modal logics; as a supplemental text for courses on modal logic, logic in AI, or philosophical logic (either at the undergraduate or graduate level); or as the primary source for researchers interested in learning about the uses of neighborhood semantics in philosophical logic and game theory.