A Strong Normalization Result for Classical Logic

In this paper we give a strong normalization proof for a set of reduction rules for classical logic. These reductions, more general then the ones usually considered in literature, are inspired to the reductions of Felleisen's lambda calculus with continuations. 1 Introduction Recently, in the logic and theoretical computer science community, there has been an ever growing interest in the computational features of classical logic. The problem on which research is beginning to focus now is not the theoretical possibility of having constructive content present in classical proofs, established in old and well known results, but the practical applicability of such results. It was Kreisel in [12] who first pinpointed the presence of constructive content in classical proofs by proving the equality of the sets of \Sigma 0 1 -sentences provable respectively in intuitionistic and classical logic. Friedman in [7] showed how to get the computational content of a classical proof of a \Sigma 0 1 ..