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Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

  • Provides an in-depth and timely analysis of Rohit Parikh's contributions to logic
  • Collects a wide array of contributions of the leading figures in the field
  • Provides a broad inter-disciplinary approach to Parikh's work
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic (OCTR, volume 11)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Parikh and Wittgenstein

    • Juliet Floyd
    Pages 1-35
  3. What is Money?

    • Jan van Eijck, Philip Elsas
    Pages 67-75
  4. Focusing on Campaigns

    • Dominik Klein, Eric Pacuit
    Pages 77-89
  5. Why Bother with Syntax?

    • Joseph Y. Halpern
    Pages 111-119
  6. Talking About Knowledge

    • Johan van Benthem
    Pages 121-143
  7. The Pleasure of Gossip

    • Maduka Attamah, Hans van Ditmarsch, Davide Grossi, Wiebe van der Hoek
    Pages 145-163
  8. Modeling Monty Hall in If Logic

    • Gabriel Sandu, Silviu Velica
    Pages 165-184
  9. The Logic of Approximate Dependence

    • Jouko Väänänen
    Pages 227-234
  10. On Height and Happiness

    • Melvin Fitting
    Pages 235-258
  11. Epistemic Conditionals and the Logic of Subsets

    • Konstantinos Georgatos
    Pages 259-277
  12. Aristotle, Boole, and Categories

    • Vaughan Pratt
    Pages 299-322
  13. Galois Theory of Algorithms

    • Noson S. Yanofsky
    Pages 323-347
  14. Parikh’s Closing Remarks

    • Rohit Parikh
    Pages 349-352
  15. The Complete Bibliography of Rohit Parikh

    • Rohit Parikh
    Pages 353-359

About this book

This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh’s scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh’s interest from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, it traces the academic trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose work opened up various new avenues in research. 
 
This volume is part of Springer’s book series Outstanding Contributions to Logic, and honours Rohit Parikh and his works in many ways. Parikh is a leader in the realm of ideas, offering concepts and definitions that enrich the field and lead to new research directions. Parikh has contributed to a variety of areas in logic, computer science and game theory. In mathematical logic his contributions have been in recursive function theory, proof theory and non-standard analysis; in computer science, in the areas of modal, temporal and dynamic logics of programs and semantics of programs, as wellas logics of knowledge; in artificial intelligence in the area of belief revision; and in game theory in the formal analysis of social procedures, with a strong undercurrent of philosophy running through all his work.
This is not a collection of articles limited to one theme, or even directly connected to specific works by Parikh, but instead all papers are inspired and influenced by Parikh in some way, adding structures to and enriching “Parikh-land”. The book presents a brochure-like overview of Parikh-land before providing an “introductory video” on the sights and sounds that you experience when reading the book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bath Department of Computer Science, Bath, United Kingdom

    Can Başkent

  • Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

    Lawrence S. Moss

  • Department of Theoretical Computer Science, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Tharamani, Chennai, India

    Ramaswamy Ramanujam

Bibliographic Information

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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Hardcover Book USD 119.99
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