Temporal Logic

Introduction: Logic and the study of time.- Introduction: Logic and the study of time.- Time and Logic — From Synthesis to Dissociation.- The sea-fight tomorrow.- The master argument of Diodorus Cronus.- The study of tenses in the middle ages.- Temporal ampliation.- The duration of the present.- The logic of beginning and ending.- Time and consequentia.- Temporalis — the logic of ‘While’.- Human freedom and divine foreknowledge.- The downfall of medieval tense-logic.- Logic as a timeless science.- Time and Logic Reunited.- The 19th century and Boolean logic.- C.S. Peirce on time and modality.- ?ukasiewicz’s contribution to temporal logic.- A three-point structure of tenses.- A.N. Prior’s tense-logic.- The idea of branching time.- Tense logic and special relativity.- Some basic systems of temporal logic.- Four grades of tense-logical involvement.- Metric tense logic.- Modern issues in temporal logic.- Two paradigms of temporal logic.- Indeterministic tense logic.- Leibnizian tense logic.- Tense logic and counterfactual reasoning.- Logic of durations.- Graphs for time and modality.- Temporal logic and computer science.- Conclusion.