[FOM] Special issue of JAL: Combining probability and logic

[Jon Williamson]

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SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED LOGIC

COMBINING PROBABILITY AND LOGIC

FOCUS: PROBABILISTIC LOGICS AND PROBABILISTIC NETWORKS

http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2007/progic/volume.htm

INTRODUCTION

There are a plethora of views as to the relationship between probability and 
logic and a panoply of proposals for combining the two. In particular, 
probabilistic logics offer formal combinations of probability and logic - 
often, however, at the expense of perspicuity and tractability. The question 
arises as to whether probabilistic networks might be used to render 
probabilistic logics more comprehensible and computationally feasible.

In this volume we aim to bring researchers from a variety of disciplines 
together to assess the prospects of applying probabilistic networks to 
probabilistic logics, and more generally to elucidate the relationship 
between probability and logic. We hope that the themes of the volume will be 
of interest to mathematicians, logicians, philosophers, computer scientists, 
statisticians, psychologists and engineers, for example.

Contributors may also like to present their papers at the associated 
conference Progic2007 
(http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2007/progic/ ).


EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

How is probability related to logic?

Should probability and logic be combined at all?

How can probabilistic networks be used to simplify probabilistic logics?

Which interpretations of probability best fit its application to 
probabilistic logic?

What are the potential applications of probabilistic logic?

To what extent do different applications demand different probabilistic 
logics?

Which probabilistic logics offer the most potential?

Do probabilistic logics require precise or imprecise probabilities?


TIMETABLE

1st July 2007: deadline for submission of full papers for publication to be 
emailed to f.russo at kent.ac.uk 1st October 2007: notification of acceptance 
of papers for publication.

1st November 2007: deadline for final version of papers accepted for 
publication.

EDITORIAL TEAM

This volume is edited by Federica Russo, Jon Williamson, Rolf Haenni Sola, 
Jan-Willem Romeijn, Gregory Wheeler and Fabio Cozman as a part of the 
progicnet academic network ( 
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2006/progicnet.htm).

Messages to the list are archived at 
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Prolonged discussions 
should be moved to chora: enrol via 
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html. Other philosophical resources 
on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

all the best,
Jon
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Jon Williamson
j.williamson at kent.ac.uk
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/
Philosophy, SECL, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK




all the best,
Jon
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Jon Williamson
j.williamson at kent.ac.uk
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/
Philosophy, SECL, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK