From logical consequence to probability

• Grant number: 11/05870-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: July 03, 2011
• End date: August 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Logic
• Principal Investigator: Juliana Bueno
• Grantee: Juliana Bueno
• Host Investigator: Graham Priest
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Melbourne, Australia
• Associated research grant: 10/51038-0 - Logical consequence, reasoning and computation - LOGCONS, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project aims to initiate the study of the foundations of concept of probability from the viewpoint of modal logics, emphasizing the anodic modal logics (negation less) and the cathodic modal logics (modal extensions of logics of formal inconsistency with degrees of negation). Although this proposal has a theoretical character, the problems addressed are of interest of methods aimed at applications, in particular to the problems of probabilistic satisfiability and of conditional probability. (AU)