This website provides information about the book Modal Logic for Open Minds by Johan van Benthem.
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Table of Contents Introduction
Core Concepts
- A whirlwind history, and changes in perspective
Basic Theory
- Basic language and semantics
- Expressive power and invariance
- Validity and decidability
- Axioms, proofs, and completeness
- Computation and complexity
Selected applications
- Classical translation and expressive power
- Increasing deductive power: the landscape of modal logics
- What axioms say: frame correspondence
- Descriptive power: extended modal languages
- ‘The next level’: modal predicate logic
- Epistemic logic
- Doxastic and conditional logic
- Dynamic logic of action
Recent theoretical themes
- Dynamic logic of information
- Preference and deontic logic
- Modal logic and games
- The structure and flow of time
- Modal patterns in space
- Provability logic
- Modal patterns in space
Coda
- Fixed-points, computation, and equilibrium
- Issues in information dynamics
- System combination and undecidability
- Abstract model theory
- Proof and incompleteness
Appendices
- Re-examining first-order logic
- A crash course in first-order logic
- Answers to selected exercises