{"product_id":"9783032334121","title":"The Plan for PLEN: Revising and Applying the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSynthese Library\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Plan for PLEN: Revising and Applying the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRalph Jenkins\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Epistemology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book develops technical and philosophical refinements of the protocol-theoretic framework for the logic of epistemic norms, a new, hyperintensional formal framework for modeling and reasoning about epistemic dynamics and epistemic norms. This refinement provides further justification for philosophical logicians and formal epistemologists to adopt the new framework over - or in addition to - older models. The protocol-theoretic framework is founded on a reconceptualization of epistemology as fundamentally a regulative and procedural endeavor. This enables the application of well-developed logical tools for exact analysis: protocol and program logics. The author’s prior book shows that the application of protocol logics to the analysis of the logic of epistemic norms is theoretically productive. This book shows, by generalizing and applying the framework’s core results, that it is more productive than was previously known. The new results include the further examination of the hyperintensionality of the system, and the meta logical properties of a hybrid logic of epistemic deontic, epistemic operators, and normal application operators. Moreover, this book shows that the theoretical benefits of the new system can be acquired without abandoning the existing models by means of results showing that other models can be subsumed by the protocol-theoretic framework.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRalph Jenkins\u003c\/strong\u003e earned a Ph.D in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2018. His primary research interests are philosophical logic (especially applied modal and non-classical logics) and epistemology (especially formal epistemology and epistemic methodology), with a primary focus on applying dynamic logic to the analysis of epistemic norms. To that end, his dissertation presented a novel logical system, the protocol-theoretic logic of epistemic norms (PLEN). His first book, A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms, was published with the Synthese Library. This work further developed PLEN into a formal framework for building and investigating logics of epistemic norms and refined the underlying philosophical positions that motivated PLEN. He is an adjunct assistant professor at CCNY (CUNY), where he focuses his teaching across the philosophy curriculum on encouraging the examination and adoption of normative systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 September 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032334121\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51029322334348,"sku":"9783032334121","price":197.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032334121.jpg?v=1782445055","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032334121","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}