- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:58:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, <sandro@w3.org>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, <las@olin.edu>, <connolly@w3.org>, <w3c-semweb-ad@w3.org>, <www-archive@w3.org>
[snip] Just to jump in here with a quick book recommendation. Susan Haack's "Deviant Logic" (republished and extended as "Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic", with a critique of the fuzzy logic agenda). It seems to be out of print and unavailable online, and my copy is in the UK, but if you get the chance, see it in the bookstore etc., I'd recommend taking a look. This thread was slipping into 'hackers versus theorists' posturing, which isn't going to do any of us any good. The Haack book seemed to me to provide a careful survey of the arguments for/against moving away from classical logics. Dan Some URLs and scraps from the Web... http://www.miami.edu/phi/haack/ http://www.miami.edu/phi/haack/DeviantLogicFlyer.pdf (bitmap PDF flyer) Amazon page, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226311333/csicop/102-9929339-5546520 [[ Initially proposed as rivals of classical logic, alternative logics have become increasingly important in areas such as computer science and artificial intelligence. Fuzzy logic, in particular, has motivated major technological developments in recent years. Susan Haack's Deviant Logic provided the first extended examination of the philosophical consequences of alternative logics. In this new volume, Haack includes the complete text of Deviant Logic, as well as five additional papers that expand and update it. Two of these essays critique fuzzy logic, while three augment Deviant Logic's treatment of deduction and logical truth. Haack also provides an extensive new foreword, brief introductions to the new essays, and an updated bibliography of recent work in these areas. ]] BN.com writeup: http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=196Z4OYZHF&mscssid=WS23T2T839V38KH59XB8M76NM72A4MDF&isbn=0226311333 [[ From Library Journal The success of fuzzy logic in certain technological applications such as in controllers for air-conditioners and other appliances, in subway braking systems, and so forth, has led some philosophers to see it as a rival to classical logic. This book is an extended defense of classical logic against attacks by proponents not only of fuzzy logic but also of many-valued, dialethic, intuitionist, and other "alternative" logics. Haack (philosophy, Univ. of Miami) deals here not only with logic but also with important issues in epistemology; however, the level of discourse is such that its main audience will be logicians and serious students of philosophy. The book contains the complete text of Haack's 1974 publication, Deviant Logic, and five other essays that have also appeared before ]] Table of Contents: [[ Introduction, 1996 Note on Notation Deviant Logic Preface and Acknowledgements Ch. 1 'Alternative' in 'Alternative Logic' 1 Ch. 2 Reasons for Deviance 25 Ch. 3 Deviance and the Theory of Truth 47 Ch. 4 Future Contingents 73 Ch. 5 Intuitionism 91 Ch. 6 Vagueness 109 Ch. 7 Singular Terms and Existence 126 Ch. 8 Quantum Mechanics 148 Deduction and Logical Truth The Justification of Deduction 183 Dummett's Justification of Deduction 192 Analyticity and Logical Truth in The Roots of Reference 214 Fuzzy Logic Do We Need 'Fuzzy Logic'? 232 Is Truth Flat or Bumpy? 243 Supplementary Bibliography of Selected Recent Material 259 Works Cited 267 Index 283 ]]]
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