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ESSLLI 2024 Course

Games Logicians Play


July 29 - August 2, 2024

Last update: July 27, 2024, 15.00 CEST
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ESSLLI 2024

Lecturer: Valentin Goranko

Detailed course plan and schedule:

(Preliminary version. Updates will be made frequently.)

Lecture 1

Date 29/07/2024

Main Topics

Introduction to the course.

Introduction to games in logic

Argumentation and dialogue games.

Logical evaluation games.

Evaluation games for modal logic (ML) and for first-order logic (FOL).

Recommended readings

Wilfrid Hodges and Jouko Väänänen: Logic and Games, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019, Sections 1-3.

Johan van Benthem: Chapters 14 and 17 from Logic in Games, MIT Press, 2014 (provided to the course participants)

Gabriel Sandu: Games and Logic. Chapter in: The Baltic International Yearbook on Cognition, Logic, and Communication, vol. 8, 2013, Section 1.

Supplementary readings

Johan van Benthem: Logic Games: from tools to models of interaction, Tech Report, Amsterdam, 2007.

Johan van Benthem: What Logic Games are Trying to Tell Us, Tech Report, Amsterdam, 2002

James Garson: Modal Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Sara Uckelman, Interactive Logic in the Middle Ages

Sara Uckelman, Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as Formal Dialogue Systems

Slides on Lecture 1:

Slides on Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Date 30/07/2024

Main Topics

Model building / satisfiability games for classical propositional logic (PL) and classical first-order logic (FOL)

Recommended readings

Wilfrid Hodges and Jouko Väänänen: Logic and Games, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edition 2019.

Johan van Benthem: Chapters 14 and 16 from Logic in Games, MIT Press, 2014

Gabriel Sandu: Games and Logic. Chapter in: The Baltic International Yearbook on Cognition, Logic, and Communication, vol. 8, 2013, Section 4.

Supplementary readings

Johan van Benthem: Logic Games: from tools to models of interaction, Tech Report, Amsterdam, 2007.

Slides on Lecture 2:

Slides on Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Date 31/07/2024

Main Topics

Model building / satisfiability games for modal logic.

Modal equivalence of Kripke models. Model comparison games in modal logic.

Bisimulation games and bisimulation invariance of modal formulae.

Modal characteristic formulae, modal equivalence, and bisimulation games together.

Recommended readings

Johan van Benthem: Chapter 15 from Logic in Games, MIT Press, 2014

Valentin Goranko and Martin Otto: Model Theory of Modal Logic, Chapter in: Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, 2006, pp. 249-329. Sections 2, 3.1-3.3

Supplementary readings

Colin Stirling: Bisimulation, model checking and other games, lecture notes, Edinburgh, 1997

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Lecture 4

Date 01/08/2024

Main Topics

Model comparison games for FOL. Ehrenfeucht-Fraǐissé games.

Characterizing n-equivalence and elementary equivalence by means of winning strategies for Ehrenfeucht-Fraǐissé games. Characteristic formulae in FO logic.

Ehrenfeucht's and Fraǐissé’s theorems.

Recommended readings

Johan van Benthem: Chapter 15 from Logic in Games, MIT Press, 2014

Kees Doets: Basic Model Theory, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1996

Jouko Väänänen: Models and Games, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011. Reduced version for EASLLC 2012.

Supplementary readings

Leonid Libkin: Elements of Finite Model Theory, Springer, 2012

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Lecture 5

Date 02/08/2024

Main Topics

Finite variable fragments of FO and pebble games. Counting games, etc.

Model comparison games and logical non-equivalence and non-definability.

Game-theoretic semantics.

Logical games with imperfect information. Independence-friendly logic.

Recommended readings

Johan van Benthem: Chapter 16 from Logic in Games, MIT Press, 2014

Kees Doets: Basic Model Theory, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1996

Jouko Väänänen: Models and Games, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011. Reduced version for EASLLC 2012.

Supplementary readings

Leonid Libkin: Elements of Finite Model Theory,  Springer, 2012

Tero Tulenheimo: Independence Friendly Logic,  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Jaakko Hintikka: Game-theoretical semantics as a challenge to proof theory, Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 4:127-142 (1999)

Erich Graedel: Back and Forth Between Logic and Games,  chapter in: In Lectures in Game Theory for Computer Scientists, Springer, 2011. pp. 99-145.  

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Slides on Lecture 5

Additional readings

TBA

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