Independence-Friendly Logic

Allen L. Mann is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tampere, Finland. Gabriel Sandu is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Merlijn Sevenster is a Senior Researcher in Healthcare Information Management at Philips Research, The Netherlands.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Game theory; 3. First-order logic; 4. Independence-friendly (IF) logic; 5. Properties of IF logic; 6. Expressive power of IF logic; 7. Probabilistic IF logic; 8. Further topics; References; Index.

'… well-written and a valuable source for anyone interested in game-theoretic approaches to logic and in the emergent logical study of dependence and independence phenomena.' Theory and Practice of Logic Programming