Combining Probability and Logic
Special issue of the Journal of
Applied Logic
Special
focus: probabilistic logics and probabilistic networks
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.
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
PREVIOUS PROGICS
The First
Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic was held at King's College London
in 2002.
A special issue of the Journal
of Applied Logic 1(3-4), 2003, was devoted to the themes of the workshop.
The Second
Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic was held at the London School
of Economics in 2005.
A special issue of the Journal
of Logic, Language and Information, 15(1-2), 2006, was devoted to the themes
of the workshop.
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.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are very grateful to the The Leverhulme Trust for providing financial support.
Combining Probability and Logic