McCarthy variations in a modal key

  • Authors:
  • Johan van Benthem

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), P.O. Box 94242, Amsterdam, GE, Netherlands and Stanford, United States

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We take a fresh look at some major strands in John McCarthy's work from a logician's perspective. First, we re-analyze circumscription in dynamic logics of belief change under hard and soft information. Next, we re-analyze the regression method in the Situation Calculus in terms of update axioms for dynamic-epistemic temporal logics. Finally, we draw some general methodological comparisons between 'Logical AI' and practices in modal logic, pointing at some creative tensions.