SYNTHESE

An Internartional Journal for Epistemology, Methodology
and Philosophy of Science

Editors-in-Chief

Johan van Benthem      Vincent F. Hendricks      John Symons

ISSN: 0039-7857 (print version)
ISSN: 1573-0964 (electronic version)
Journal no. 11229
 Springer Netherlands

Synthese publishes articles in all the fields covered by the subtitle. These include: the theory of knowledge; the general methodological problems of science, such as the problems of scientific discovery and scientific inference, of induction and probability, of causation and the role of mathematics, statistics and logic in science; the methodological and foundational problems of different sciences. Insofar as they have philosophical interest: those aspects of symbolic logic and of the foundations of mathematics which are relevant to the philosophy and methodology of science; and those facets of the ethics, history and sociology of science which are important for contemporary topical pursuits. Special attention is paid to the role of mathematical, logical and linguistic methods in the general methodology of science and the foundations of the different sciences.

Special section Knowledge, Rationality and Action, edited by Wiebe van der Hoek:

The aim of the section is to provide a platform for researchers interested in a formal approach to the process comprising rational behaviour: from gathering and representing information, via reasoning and decision making up to acting. Consequently, the journal will address topics related to:

Knowledge - Gathering information, reasoning about knowledge, belief, uncertainty, and information about changing situations: belief revision and updates, dynamics epistemic logic, security and authorisation.
Rationality - Decision making, bounded rationality and resource bounded reasoning, optimal and satisfycing behaviour, preferences, cooperative and competitive behaviour, logic and game theory, solution concepts of games, computational models of rational behaviour, planning, theories of norms.
Action - Theories of action, theories of belief and action, rational agency, social structures, logic for action and change, sensing, temporal reasoning, re-planning, verification of dynamic systems, logic programming, the frame problem, action and cognition.

The scope of Knowledge, Rationality and Action is interdisciplinary: it will be of interest to researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, agents, computer science, knowledge representation, game theory, economics, logic, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, cryptography, and auction theory, as well as to application specialists using formal and mathematical methods and tools.

SYNTHESE LIBRARY
 Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and
Philosophy of Science
Editors-in-Chief

Vincent F. Hendricks         John Symons

Springer Netherlands

 
The aim of Synthese Library is to provide a forum for the best current work in the methodology and philosophy of science and in epistemology. A wide variety of different approaches have traditionally been represented in the Library, and every effort is made to maintain this variety, not for its own sake, but because we believe that there are many fruitful and illuminating approaches to the philosophy of science and related disciplines. Special attention is paid to methodological studies which illustrate the interplay of empirical and philosophical viewpoints and to contributions to the formal (logical, set-theoretical, mathematical, information-theoretical, decision-theoretical, etc.) methodology of empirical sciences. Likewise, the applications of logical methods to epistemology as well as philosophically and methodologically relevant studies in logic are strongly encouraged. The emphasis on logic will be tempered by interest in the psychological, historical, and sociological aspects of science.

Besides monographs Synthese Library publishes thematically unified anthologies and edited volumes with a well-defined topical focus inside the aim and scope of the book series. The contributions in the volumes are expected to be focused and structurally organized in accordance with the central theme(s), and should be tied together by an extensive editorial introduction or set of introductions if the volume is divided into parts. An extensive bibliography and index are mandatory.