A New Introduction to Modal Logic

A New Introduction to Modal Logic
Author: M.J. Cresswell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134800274

This long-awaited book replaces Hughes and Cresswell's two classic studies of modal logic: An Introduction to Modal Logic and A Companion to Modal Logic. A New Introduction to Modal Logic is an entirely new work, completely re-written by the authors. They have incorporated all the new developments that have taken place since 1968 in both modal propositional logic and modal predicate logic, without sacrificing tha clarity of exposition and approachability that were essential features of their earlier works. The book takes readers from the most basic systems of modal propositional logic right up to systems of modal predicate with identity. It covers both technical developments such as completeness and incompleteness, and finite and infinite models, and their philosophical applications, especially in the area of modal predicate logic.

A New Introduction to Modal Logic

A New Introduction to Modal Logic
Author: George Edward Hughes
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1996
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780415125994

This entirely new work guides the reader through the most basic systems of modal propositional logic up to systems of modal predicate with identity, dealing with both technical developments and discussing philosophical applications.

Modal Logic

Modal Logic
Author: Brian F. Chellas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1980-02-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521295154

An introductory textbook on modal logic the logic of necessity and possibility.

Modal Logic

Modal Logic
Author: Nino B. Cocchiarella
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008-08-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190451203

In this text, a variety of modal logics at the sentential, first-order, and second-order levels are developed with clarity, precision and philosophical insight. All of the S1-S5 modal logics of Lewis and Langford, among others, are constructed. A matrix, or many-valued semantics, for sentential modal logic is formalized, and an important result that no finite matrix can characterize any of the standard modal logics is proven. Exercises, some of which show independence results, help to develop logical skills. A separate sentential modal logic of logical necessity in logical atomism is also constructed and shown to be complete and decidable. On the first-order level of the logic of logical necessity, the modal thesis of anti-essentialism is valid and every de re sentence is provably equivalent to a de dicto sentence. An elegant extension of the standard sentential modal logics into several first-order modal logics is developed. Both a first-order modal logic for possibilism containing actualism as a proper part as well as a separate modal logic for actualism alone are constructed for a variety of modal systems. Exercises on this level show the connections between modal laws and quantifier logic regarding generalization into, or out of, modal contexts and the conditions required for the necessity of identity and non-identity. Two types of second-order modal logics, one possibilist and the other actualist, are developed based on a distinction between existence-entailing concepts and concepts in general. The result is a deeper second-order analysis of possibilism and actualism as ontological frameworks. Exercises regarding second-order predicate quantifiers clarify the distinction between existence-entailing concepts and concepts in general. Modal Logic is ideally suited as a core text for graduate and undergraduate courses in modal logic, and as supplementary reading in courses on mathematical logic, formal ontology, and artificial intelligence.

Modal Logic for Philosophers

Modal Logic for Philosophers
Author: James W. Garson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2006-08-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0521682290

This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Modal Logic as Metaphysics
Author: Timothy Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019955207X

Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.

First-Order Modal Logic

First-Order Modal Logic
Author: M. Fitting
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401152926

This is a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic. The book covers such issues as quantification, equality (including a treatment of Frege's morning star/evening star puzzle), the notion of existence, non-rigid constants and function symbols, predicate abstraction, the distinction between nonexistence and nondesignation, and definite descriptions, borrowing from both Fregean and Russellian paradigms.

Introductory Modal Logic

Introductory Modal Logic
Author: Kenneth Konyndyk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986
Genre: Modality (Logic)
ISBN: 9780268011598

Modal logic, developed as an extension of classical propositional logic and first-order quantification theory, integrates the notions of possibility and necessity and necessary implication. Arguments whose understanding depends on some fundamental knowledge of modal logic have always been important in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and epistemology. Moreover, modal logic has become increasingly important with the use of the concept of "possible worlds" in these areas. Introductory Modal Logic fills the need for a basic text on modal logic, accessible to students of elementary symbolic logic. Kenneth Konyndyk presents a natural deduction treatment of propositional modal logic and quantified modal logic, historical information about its development, and discussions of the philosophical issues raised by modal logic. Characterized by clear and concrete explanations, appropriate examples, and varied and challenging exercises, Introductory Modal Logic makes both modal logic and the possible-worlds metaphysics readily available to the introductory level student.

Kripke’s Worlds

Kripke’s Worlds
Author: Olivier Gasquet
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764385049

Possible worlds models were introduced by Saul Kripke in the early 1960s. Basically, a possible world's model is nothing but a graph with labelled nodes and labelled edges. Such graphs provide semantics for various modal logics (alethic, temporal, epistemic and doxastic, dynamic, deontic, description logics) and also turned out useful for other nonclassical logics (intuitionistic, conditional, several paraconsistent and relevant logics). All these logics have been studied intensively in philosophical and mathematical logic and in computer science, and have been applied increasingly in domains such as program semantics, artificial intelligence, and more recently in the semantic web. Additionally, all these logics were also studied proof theoretically. The proof systems for modal logics come in various styles: Hilbert style, natural deduction, sequents, and resolution. However, it is fair to say that the most uniform and most successful such systems are tableaux systems. Given logic and a formula, they allow one to check whether there is a model in that logic. This basically amounts to trying to build a model for the formula by building a tree. This book follows a more general approach by trying to build a graph, the advantage being that a graph is closer to a Kripke model than a tree. It provides a step-by-step introduction to possible worlds semantics (and by that to modal and other nonclassical logics) via the tableaux method. It is accompanied by a piece of software called LoTREC (www.irit.fr/Lotrec). LoTREC allows to check whether a given formula is true at a given world of a given model and to check whether a given formula is satisfiable in a given logic. The latter can be done immediately if the tableau system for that logic has already been implemented in LoTREC. If this is not yet the case LoTREC offers the possibility to implement a tableau system in a relatively easy way via a simple, graph-based, interactive language.

Boxes and Diamonds

Boxes and Diamonds
Author: Richard Zach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-11-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781077321380

A textbook on modal and other intensional logics. It covers normal modal logics, relational semantics, axiomatic and tableaux proof systems, intuitionistic logic, and counterfactual conditionals. It is based on the Open Logic Project and available for free download at openlogicproject.org.