Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on His Life and Work Vol

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Vol. II

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. THEa A.F. KUIPERS , University of Groningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University. California, U.S.A. JAN waLEN-sKI, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

VOLUME 304

COLLECTED PAPERS OF STIG KANGER WITH ESSAYS ON HIS LIFE ANDWORK VoI. II Edited by

GHITA HOLMSTROM-HINTIKKA Boston University, Boston, U.S.A.

STEN LINDSTROM Umeă

University,

Umeă,

Sweden

and RYSIEK SLIWINSKI Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4020-0112-3 ISBN 978-94-010-0630-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0630-9

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

VII

Stig Kanger as We Remember Him: Nine Biographical Sketches edited by Krister Segerberg with contributions by Krister Segerberg Soren Hallden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan Berg Soren Stenlund Ingmar Porn Lars Gustafsson Brian F. Chellas Lennart Aqvist Kaj Berge Hansen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

3 11 13 17 19 21 23 25 29

Goran Sundholm: The Proof Theory of Stig Kanger: A Personal Recollection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dag Prawitz: A Note on Kanger's Work on Efficient Proof Procedures Anatoli Degtyarev and Andrei Voronkov : Kanger's Choices in Automated Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Kaj Berge Hansen: Kanger's Ideas on Non-Well-Founded Sets: Some Remarks Jaakko Hintikka: The Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Ordinary Logic Sten Lindstrom: An Exposition and Development of Kanger's Early Semantics for Modal Logic Risto Hilpinen: Stig Kanger on Deontic Logic Lars Lindahl: Stig Kanger's Theory of Rights Lennart Aqvist : Stig Kanger's Theory of Rights : Bearers and Counterparties, Sources-Of-Law, and the Hansson Petaluma Example Ghita Holmstrom-Hintikka: Stig Kanger's Actions and Influence Sven Ove Hansson: Kanger's Theory of Preference and Choice

31 43 53 69 87 97 131 151 173 185 205

vi Wlodek Rabinowicz: Preference Logic and Radical Interpretation: Kanger Meets Davidson 221 Amartya Sen: Non-Binary Choice and Preference: A Tribute to Stig Kanger 243 Notes on the Contributors 255 Index of Names 261 Subject