Quantifiers, propositions and identity : admissible semantics for quantified modal and substructural logics / / Robert Goldblatt [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781962203321
• Autore: Goldblatt Robert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-139-09842-X; 1-139-09910-8; 1-139-10178-1; 1-139-09978-7; 0-511-86235-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Lecture notes in logic ; ; 38
• Classificazione: MAT018000
• Disciplina: 511.3
• Soggetti: Modality (Logic); Variables (Mathematics); Semantics (Philosophy); Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction and overview -- Chapter 1. Logics with actualist quantifiers -- Chapter 2. The Barcan formulas -- Chapter 3. The existence predicate -- Chapter 4. Propositional functions and predicate substitution -- Chapter 5. Identity -- Chapter 6. Cover semantics for relevant logic.
• Sommario/riassunto: Many systems of quantified modal logic cannot be characterised by Kripke's well-known possible worlds semantic analysis. This book shows how they can be characterised by a more general 'admissible semantics', using models in which there is a restriction on which sets of worlds count as propositions. This requires a new interpretation of quantifiers that takes into account the admissibility of propositions. The author sheds new light on the celebrated Barcan Formula, whose role becomes that of legitimising the Kripkean interpretation of quantification. The theory is worked out for systems with quantifiers ranging over actual objects, and over all possibilia, and for logics with ; existence and identity predicates and definite descriptions. The final chapter develops a new admissible 'cover semantics' for propositional and quantified relevant logic, adapting ideas from the Kripke-Joyal semantics for intuitionistic logic in topos theory. This book is for mathematical or philosophical logicians, computer scientists and linguists.

Achieving academic promotion / / edited by Marian Mahat and Jennifer Tatebe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793219803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: United Kingdon : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2019
• ISBN: 1-78756-901-2; 1-78756-899-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 pages)
• Collana: Surviving and thriving in academia
• Disciplina: 378.12
• Soggetti: College teachers - Promotions; College teachers - Vocational guidance; Education - Higher; Colleges of higher education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prelims -- Foreword -- Part I: Scholars' experiences and personal reflections on academic promotion -- 1. Demystifying the academic promotion process -- 2. From perilous to permanent -- 3. Being female in academia -- 4. Raising the bar: landing your first academic position in US higher education -- Part II: International perspectives on the structural and institutional processes of academic promotion -- 5. Academic promotion in the UK: your guide to success -- 6. Academic careers and promotions in Finland and Austria: system and institutional perspectives -- 7. The academic market in Latin America: challenges and opportunities for early career scholars -- 8. Promotion within the academy -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book demystifies the academic promotion process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in different contexts - to help you understand the steps you can take at any stage of your career to move up the ladder.