Words, Proofs and Diagrams Format: Paperback

Edited by Dave Barker-Plummer, David I. Beaver, Johan van Benthem, and Patrick S

ISBN 10: 1575864061 / ISBN 13: 9781575864068

Published by University of Chicago press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Words, Proofs and Diagrams Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575864061
• ISBN 13: 9781575864068
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The past twenty years have witnessed extensive collaborative research between computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists. These interdisciplinary studies stem from the realization that researchers drawn from all fields are studying the same problem. Specifically, a common concern amongst researchers today is how logic sheds light on the nature of information. Ancient questions concerning how humans communicate, reason and decide, and modern questions about how computers should communicate, reason and decide are of prime interest to researchers in various disciplines.

Words, Proofs and Diagrams is a collection of papers covering active research areas at the interface of logic, computer science, and linguistics. Readers of the volume will find traditional research on process logics, issues in formal semantics, and language processing. In addition, the volume also highlights a particularly new area where all three disciplines meet—the study of images and graphics as information carriers and the diagrammatic reasoning supported by them.

About the Author

Johan van Benthem is the University Professor of logic, emeritus at the University of Amsterdam, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and  the Jin Yuelin Chaired Professor of Logic at Tsinghua University Beijing.