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Dov Gabbay

Disciplines:
logic
philosophy of science
artificial intelligence

Summary

Israeli-British logician who has contributed to modal logic, temporal logic, labelled deductive systems, and is the editor of the most comprehensive reference work in philosophical logic.

Core Contribution

Handbook of Philosophical Logic (multi-volume, editor): the comprehensive reference work for formal logic in philosophy. Labelled Deductive Systems: a framework for combining logics — any modality can be handled by adding labels tracking the relevant information. Fibring: a method for combining logics while preserving their properties.

Notable Works & Achievements

Handbook of Philosophical Logic

Labelled Deductive Systems

Historical Influences

Arthur Prior Saul Kripke

Intellectual Lineage

Mathematical Logic

Contemporaries & Peers

John BurgessKrister Segerberg

Minds Influenced

Philosophical Logic Research

Intellectual Posterity

Logic CombinationLabelled Deduction

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