Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Situation Theory: 1. Constraints, channels, and the flow of information Jon Barwise; 2. Extended Kamp notation: a graphical notation for situation theory Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper; 3. States of affairs without parameters Mark Crimmins; Part II. Logical Applications: 4. Labelled deductive systems and situation theory D. M. Gabbay; 5. Events and processes in situation semantics Michael Georgeff, David Morley and Anand Rao; 6. Nonmonotonic projection, causation and induction Robert C. Koons; 7. Modal situation theory Stephen M. Schulz; Part III. Linguistic Applications: 8. Generalized quantifiers and resource situations Robin Cooper; 9. Situation theory and cooperative action Keith Devlin and Duska Rosenberg; 10. Propositional and non-propositional attitudes Jonathan Ginzburg; 11. Episodic logic: a situational logic for natural language processing Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert; 12. A situation-theoric formalization of definite description interpretation in plan elaboration dialogues Massimo Poessio; 13. A situation-theoretic representation of text meaning; anaphora, quantification, and negation Dag Westerståhl, Björn Haglund and Torbjörn Lager; Name index; Subject index.