Professor Raymond Turner (born 28 April 1947) is an English logician, philosopher, and theoretical

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based at the

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. He is best known for his work on

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and for his pioneering work in the philosophy of computer science. He is on the editorial boards for the

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and the

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, for Logic, Computation, and Agency.Plato at Stanford University
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Books

* ''Logics for Artificial Intelligence'', 121 pages, E. Horwood, 1984, * ''Truth and Modality for Knowledge Representation'', 141 pages, The MIT Press, 1991, * ''Constructive Foundations for Functional Languages'', 288 pages, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, 1 May 1991, * ''Computable Models'', 240 pages, Springer, 2009, * ''Computational Artefacts: Towards a Philosophy of Computer Science'', 285 pages, Springer, 2018,

Selected Papers

* ''A theory of properties'', The Journal of Symbolic Logic. 52 (02), 455–472. * ''Counterfactuals without p