Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on his Life and Work Vol
Stig Kanger (1924-1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy. Kanger's dissertation Provability in Logic, 1957, contained significant results in proof theory as well as the first fully worked out model-theoretic interpretation of qu
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A. Editors : DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. Poland
VOLUME 303
COLLECTED PAPERS OF STIG KANGER WITH ESSAYS ON HIS LIFE ANDWORK VoI. 1 Edited by
GHITA HOLMSTROM-HINTIKKA Boston University, Boston, USA.
STEN LINDSTROM Umea University, Umea, Sweden
and RYSIEK SLIWINSKI Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-0022-5 ISBN 978-94-010-0500-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0500-5
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction PURE LOGIC A Note on Partial Postulate Sets for Propositional Logic Provability in Logic The Morning Star Paradox A Note on Quantification and Modalities On the Characterization of Modalities A Simplified Proof Method for Elementary Logic Equivalent Theories An Algebraic Logic Calculus Equational Calculi and Automatic Demonstration Entailment The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging, Regained Again
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52 54 58 65
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APPLIED LOGIC : OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND ACTION New Foundations for Ethical Theory Rights and Parliamentarism Law and Logic Some Aspects on the Concept of Influence On Realization of Human Rights Unavoidability Unavoidability . Appendix
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APPLIED LOGIC : PREFERENCE AND CHOICE Preference Logic A Note on Preference-Logic Choice and Modality
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Choice Based on Preference Decision by Democratic Procedure
214 231
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Measurement: An Essay in Philosophy of Science The Notion of a Phoneme
239 274
Published Writings of Stig Kanger Index of Names Subject Index
279 285 289
Photo : Rune Kanger
Stig Kanger
INTRODUCTION
Stig Kanger ( 1924- 1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy . Characteristic of Kanger as a philosopher was his firm conviction that philosophical problems can be clarified - and sometimes even solved - by means of exact logical and mathematical method s. His most substantial, and groundbreaking, contributions were in the areas of general proof theory, the semantics of modal and deontic logic, and the logical analysi s of the concept of rights. But he contributed signi
