th This volume is dedicated to Dov Gabbay who celebrated his 50 birthday
in October 1995. Dov is one of the most outstanding and most productive
researchers we have ever met. He has exerted a profound influence in
major fields of logic, linguistics and computer science. His
contributions in the areas of logic, language and reasoning are so
numerous that a comprehensive survey would already fill half of this
book. Instead of summarizing his work we decided to let him speak for
himself. Sitting in a car on the way to Amsterdam airport he gave an
interview to Jelle Gerbrandy and Anne-Marie Mineur. This recorded
conversation with him, which is included gives a deep insight into his
motivations and into his view of the world, the Almighty and, of course,
the role of logic. In addition, this volume contains a partially
annotated bibliography of his main papers and books. The length of the
bibliography and the broadness of the topics covered there speaks for
itself.