Situation Theory and Its Applications, Volume 2
edited by Jon Barwise, Jean Mark Gawron, Gordon Plotkin, and
Syun Tutiya
Situation theory is the result of an interdisciplinary effort to create a full-fledged theory of information. Created by scholars and scientists from cognitive science, computer science, AI, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and mathematics, the theory is forging a common set of tools for the analysis of phenomena from all these fields. This volume presents work that evolved out of the Second Conference on Situation Theory and its Applications. Twenty-six essays exhibit the wide range of the theory, covering such topics as natural language semantics, philosophical issues about information, mathematical applications, and the visual representation of the information in computer systems.
Jon Barwise was a professor of
philosophy, mathematics, and logic at Indiana university in
Bloomington. Jean Mark Gawron is a
researcher at SRI International and a consultant at Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories. Gordon Plotkin is a
professor of theoretical computer science at the University of
Edinburgh. Syun Tutiya is in the philosophy department at Chiba University in Japan.
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Situation Theory
- 1 Universes and Parameters
Peter Aczel and Rachel Lunnon
- 2 Situations as Mathematical Abstractions
Keith J. Devlin
- 3 Oracles in Situation Semantics
Keith J. Devlin
- 4 Many Sorted Universes, SRDs, and Injective Sums
Rachel Lunnon
- 5 A Theory of Situations
Edward N. Zalta
- Part II Logical Applications
- 6 Pierce on Truth and Partiality
Tom Burke
- 7 Information and and Architecture
David Isreal and John Perry
- 8 Doxic Paradox: A Situational Solution
Robert C. Koons
- 9 CLP (AFA): Coinductive Semantics of Horn Clauses with Compact Constraints
Kuniaki Mukai
- 10 Inferring in a Situation about Situations
Hideyuki Nakashima and Syun Tutiya
- 11 Situation-Theoretic Aspects of Databases
Bill Rounds
- 12 Physical Situations and Information Flow
Jerry Seligman
- Part III Linguistic Applications
- 13 Persistence and Structural Determination
Richard P. Cooper
- 14 Negation in Situation Semantics and Discourse Representation Theory
Robin Cooper and Hans Kamp
- 15 The Absorption Principle and E-Type Anaphora
Jean Mark Gawron, John Nerborne, and Stanley Peters
- 16 Questions without Answers, Wh-Phrases without Scope: A Semantics for Direct Wh-Questions and their Responses
Jonathan Ginzburg
- 17 Reducing Complexity of Contraint-Based Grammars
Kôiti Hasida
- 18 Perspectivity and the Japanese Reflexive ‘zibun’
Yasuhiro Katagiri
- 19 A Fomalization of Metaphor Understanding in Situation Semantics
Tatsunori Mori and Hiroshi Nakagawa
- 20 Relational Semantics and Scope Ambiguity
Massimo Poesio
- 21 Parameters: Dependence and Absorption
Helle Frisak Sem, Kjell Johan Sæbø, Guri B. Verne, and Espen J. Vestre
- 22 A Strictly Incremental Approach to Japanese Grammar
Hiroyuki Suzuki and Syun Tutiya
- 23 Probing the Iroquoian Perspective: Towards a Situated Inquiriy of Linguistic Relativity
Dietmar Zaefferer
- Part IV Visual Information
- 24 Visualization
C. Michael Lewis
- 25 A Situation-Theoretic Account of Valid Reasoning with Venn Diagrams
Sun-Joo Shin
- 26 Reasoning with Words, Pictures, and Calculi: Computation Versus Justification
Keith Stenning and Jon Oberlander
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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ISBN (Paperback): 9780937073704 (0937073709)
ISBN (Cloth): 9780937073711 (0937073717)
ISBN (Electronic): 9781575867694 (1575867699)
Subject: Cognitive Science; Logic; Language and Logic
Books by Jon Barwise (1942–2000)
- Language, Proof and Logic (second edition)
Dave Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy (Sep. 2011)
- Tarski's World: Revised and Expanded
Dave Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy in
collaboration with Albert Liu (CSLI Lecture Note 169, Jan. 2008)
- Vicious Circles Jon Barwise and
Lawrence S. Moss (CSLI Lecture Note 60, June 1996)
- Hyperproof Jon Barwise and John
Etchemendy (CSLI Lecture Note 42)
- Situation Theory and Its Applications,
Volume 2 Jon Barwise, Jean Mark Gawron, Gordon Plotkin, and
Syun Tutiya (CSLI Lecture Note 26, Jan. 1991)
- The Situation in Logic Jon
Barwise (CSLI Lecture Note 17)
- Situations and Attitudes Jon Barwise and John Perry (March 1999)
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