Overview
- Provides access to some of the most important systems of paraconsistent logic
- Up-to-date surveys of recent advancements in non-classical logics and their applications
- Covers a broad range of philosophical topics, such as: ontology, to epistemology, the philosophy of language, computation, and information
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 26)
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A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems have been little understood by philosophers. This book presents a comprehensive overview on paraconsistent logical systems to change this situation. The book includes almost every major author currently working in the field. The papers are on the cutting edge of the literature some of which discuss current debates and others present important new ideas. The editors have avoided papers about technical details of paraconsistent logic, but instead concentrated upon works that discuss more "big picture" ideas. Different treatments of paradoxes takes centre stage in many of the papers, but also there are several papers on how to interpret paraconistent logic and some on how it can be applied to philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Logic
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Applications
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications
Editors: Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edwin Mares, Francesco Paoli
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4438-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4437-0Published: 25 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8209-8Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4438-7Published: 26 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 383
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Language