Logic, Language and Reasoning Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay
th This volume is dedicated to Dov Gabbay who celebrated his 50 birthday in October 1995. Dov is one of the most outstanding and most productive researchers we have ever met. He has exerted a profound influence in major fields of logic, linguistics and co
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TRENDS IN LOGIC Studia Logica Library VOLUME 5 Managing Editor
Ryszard W6jcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Editors
Petr Hajek, Institute of Computer Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic David Makinson, Ville d'Avray, France Daniele Mundici, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Milan, Italy Krister Segerberg, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Alasdair Urquhart, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada Assistant Editor
Jacek Malinowski, Box 61, UPT 00-953, Warszawa 37, Poland
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Trends in Logic is a bookseries covering essentially the same area as the journal Studia Logica - that is, contemporary formal logic and its applications and relations to other disciplines. These include artificial intelligence, informatics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of language. However, this list is not exhaustive, moreover, the range of applications, comparisons and sources of inspiration is open and evolves over time.
LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND REASONING Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay
Edited by
HANS JÜRGEN OHLBACH
King s College, London, United Kingdom
and
UWEREYLE
University 0/ Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-94-010-5936-7 ISBN 978-94-011-4574-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4574-9
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Preface This volume is dedicated to Dov Gabbay who celebrated his 50th birthday in October 1995. Dov is one of the most outstanding and most productive researchers we have ever met. He has exerted a profound influence in major fields of logic, linguistics and computer science. His contributions in the areas of logic, language and reasoning are so numerous that a comprehensive survey would already fill half of this book. Instead of summarizing his work we decided to let him speak for himself. Sitting in a car on the way to Amsterdam airport he gave an interview to Jelle Gerbrandy and Anne-Marie Mineur. This recorded conversation with him, which is included gives a deep insight into his motivations and into his view of the world, the Almighty and, of course, the role of logic. In addition, this volume contains a partially annotated bibliography of his main papers and books. The length of the bibliography and the broadness of the topics covered there speaks for itself. T
