Inference on the Low Level

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Preliminaries.- I The Explication of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference.- 3 Belief.- 4 Inference.- II The Justification of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference.- 5 General Remarks on Justification and Justified Belief.- 6 An Informal Account of Our Theory of Justified Inference.- 7 A Discussion of Reliability.- 8 A Theory of Justified Inference.- III The Logic of Justified Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference.- 9 The Semantics of Deductive and Nonmonotonic Logic.- 10 Systems of Deductive and Nonmonotonic Logic.- 11 Soundness and Completeness Results.- 12 Further Consequences for Justified Inference.- IV The Cognition of Justified Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference by Low-Level Agents.- 13 Introductory Remarks.- 14 Inhibition Nets as Simple Neural Networks.- 15 Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents.- 16 Cumulative-Ordered Interpreted Inh. Net Agents and the System CL.- 17 Cumulative-Ordered Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents as Ideal Agents.- 18 Inhibition Nets and Other Forms of Nonmonotonic Reasoning.- 19 Inhibition Nets and Artificial Neural Networks.- 20 Discussion.- V Appendix.- 21 Digression on States, Dispositions, Causation, Processes.- 22 Goldman’s Reliability Account of Justified Belief.- 23 A Sketch of Logic Programming.- 24 Preferential Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System P.- 25 Cumulative Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System C.- 26 Simple Cumulative Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System CM.- 27 Simple Preferential Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System M.- References.

From the reviews: "The ambitious goal of the book is the formal development of realistic (in particular: dynamic and neuronal) models of the cognitive process of reasoning. ... In sum, Leitgeb's book contains highly original and far-reaching results concerning the relation between three important areas: the epistemology of belief, the logic of reasoning, and the structure and dynamics of neuronal networks. The book is recommended for every reader who is interested in at least one of these areas ... ." (Gerhard Schurz, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 38, 2007)