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Develops a new logic paradigm which emphasizes evidence tracking, including theory, connections to other fields, and sample applications.
List of contents
Introduction: 1. Why justification logic?; 2. The basics of justification logic; 3. The ontology of justifcations; 4. Fitting models; 5. Sequents and tableaus; 6. Realization - how it began; 7. Realization - generalized; 8. The range of realization; 9. Arithmetical completeness and BHK semantics; 10. Quantifiers in justification logic; 11. Going past modal logic.
About the author
Sergei Artemov is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York. He is a specialist in mathematical logic, logic in computer science, control theory, epistemology, and game theory. He is credited with solving long-standing problems in constructive logic that had been left open by Goedel and Kolmogorov since the 1930s. He has pioneered studies in the logic of proofs and justifications that renders a new, evidence-based theory of knowledge and belief. The most recent focus of his interests is epistemic foundations of game theory.Melvin Fitting is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. He has written or edited a dozen books, and has worked in intensional logic, semantics for logic programming, theory of truth, and tableau systems for non-classical logics. In 2012 he received the Herbrand Award from the Conference on Automated Deduction. He was on the faculty of the City University of New York from 1969 to his retirement in 2013, at Lehman College, and at the Graduate Center, where he was in the Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy.
Summary
Justification logic is a theory of reasoning that enables the tracking of evidence for statements and therefore provides a framework for the reliability of assertions. This book, the first in the area, is a systematic and modern account that will appeal to readers from a variety of disciplines to which the theory applies.
