Handbook of Philosophical Logic

The first edition of the "Handbook of Philosophical Logic" (four volumes) was published in the period 1983-1989. The second edition of the handbook is intended to comprise some 18 volumes and should provide up-to-date, authoritative, in-depth coverage of all major topics in philosophical logic and its applications in many fields relating to computer science, language, and argumentation. The volumes will no longer be as topic-oriented as with the first edition because of the way the subject has evolved. However the volumes will follow some natural groupings of chapters. This first volume of the second edition contains major contributions on predicate logic, first- and second-order logic, higher-order logic, algorithms and decision problems, and the mathematics of logic programming.