Gentzen Calculi for Modal Propositional Logic

• Main Author: Poggiolesi, Francesca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Trends in Logic ; 32
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Computer graphics.; Mathematics.; Linguistics.; Philosophy, general.; Mathematics, general.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Linguistics, general.

The book is about Gentzen calculi for (the main systems of) modal logic. It is divided into three parts. In the first part we introduce and discuss the main philosophical ideas related to proof theory, and we try to identify criteria for distinguishing good sequent calculi. In the second part we pre...