The Force of Argument

Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley
Herausgeber: Lear, Jonathan; Oliver, Alex

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Produktbeschreibung

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotlea (TM)s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the theory of descriptions. This volume brings together new articles by an international roster of leading logicians and philosophers in order to honour Smileya (TM)s work. Their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectruma "in philosophy of language, philosophical and mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780415801201
• ISBN-10: 0415801206
• Artikelnr.: 27871107

Autorenporträt

Alex Oliver is Reader in Philosophy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, UK. Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Philosophy in and out of the armchair
Kwame Anthony Appiah 2. Restricted quantifiers and logical theory
Thomas Baldwin 3. Logical form
James Cargile 4. The Socratic elenchus: no problem
James Doyle 5. What makes mathematics mathematics?
Ian Hacking 6. Smiley's distinction between rules of inference and rules of proof
Lloyd Humberstone 7. Relative validity and vagueness
Rosanna Keefe 8. The force of irony
Jonathan Lear 9. The matter of form: logic's beginnings
Alex Oliver 10. Abstractionist class theory: is there any such thing?
Michael Potter 11. A case of mistaken identity?
Graham Priest 12. Inferential semantics for first-order logic: motivating rules of inference from rules of evaluation
Neil Tennant List of contributors Bibliography of works by Timothy Smile Index