The Age of Alternative Logics - Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

In the last century developments in mathematics, philosophy, physics, computer science, economics and linguistics have proven important for the development of logic. There has been an influx of new ideas, concerns, and logical systems reflecting a great variety of reasoning tasks in the sciences. This volume reflects the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic and science. It presents contributions from the world's leading scholars under the following headings: - Proof, Knowledge and Computation;- Truth Values beyond Bivalence;- Category-Theoretic Structures;- Independence, Evaluation Games, and Imperfect Information;- Dialogue and Pragmatics