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Title Dag Prawitz on proofs and meaning / Heinrich Wansing, editor
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2015]

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Series Outstanding contributions to logic ; v. 7
Outstanding contributions to logic ; v. 7.
Contents Prawitz, proofs, and meaning; Wansing, Heinrich -- A short scientific autobiography; Prawitz, Dag -- Explaining deductive inference; Prawitz, Dag -- Necessity of Thought; Cozzo, Cesare -- On the Motives for Proof Theory; Detlefsen, Michael -- Inferential Semantics; Došen, Kosta -- Cut elimination, substitution and normalization; Dyckhoff, Roy -- Inversion principles and introduction rules; Milne, Peter -- Intuitionistic Existential Instantiation and Epsilon Symbol; Mints, Grigori -- Meaning in Use; Negri, Sara and von Plato, Jan -- Fusing Quantifiers and Connectives: Is Intuitionistic Logic Different?; Pagin, Peter -- On constructive fragments of Classical Logic; Pereira; Luiz Carlos and Haeusler, Edward Hermann -- General-Elimination Harmony and Higher-Level Rules; Read, Stephen -- Hypothesis-discharging rules in atomic bases; Sandqvist, Tor -- Harmony in proof-theoretic semantics: A reductive analysis; Schroeder-Heister, Peter -- First-order Logic without bound variables: Compositional Semantics; Tait, William W -- On Gentzen's Structural Completeness Proof; Tennant, Neil -- A Notion of C-Justification for Empirical Statements; Usberti, Gabriele
Summary This volume is dedicated to Prof. Dag Prawitz and his outstanding contributions to philosophical and mathematical logic. Prawitz's eminent contributions to structural proof theory, or general proof theory, as he calls it, and inference-based meaning theories have been extremely influential in the development of modern proof theory and anti-realistic semantics. In particular, Prawitz is the main author on natural deduction in addition to Gerhard Gentzen, who defined natural deduction in his PhD thesis published in 1934. The book opens with an introductory paper that surveys Prawitz's numerous contributions to proof theory and proof-theoretic semantics and puts his work into a somewhat broader perspective, both historically and systematically. Chapters include either in-depth studies of certain aspects of Dag Prawitz's work or address open research problems that are concerned with core issues in structural proof theory and range from philosophical essays to papers of a mathematical nature. Investigations into the necessity of thought and the theory of grounds and computational justifications as well as an examination of Prawitz's conception of the validity of inferences in the light of three ℓ́ℓdogmas of proof-theoretic semanticsℓ́ℓ are included. More formal papers deal with the constructive behaviour of fragments of classical logic and fragments of the modal logic S4 among other topics. In addition, there are chapters about inversion principles, normalization of proofs, and the notion of proof-theoretic harmony and other areas of a more mathematical persuasion. Dag Prawitz also writes a chapter in which he explains his current views on the epistemic dimension of proofs and addresses the question why some inferences succeed in conferring evidence on their conclusions when applied to premises for which one already possesses evidence
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Subject Prawitz, Dag.
SUBJECT Prawitz, Dag fast
Subject Logic.
Logic design.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Philosophy.
philosophy.
Mathematical foundations.
Computer programming -- software development.
Philosophy: logic.
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
Logic
Logic design
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Wansing, H. (Heinrich)
ISBN 9783319110417
3319110411