Mistakes of Reason : : Essays in Honour of John Woods / / Kent A. Peacock, Andrew D. Irvine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Irvine, Andrew D.,; Peacock, Kent A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Over a distinguished academic career, the Canadian philosopher and scholar John Woods has written on a rich variety of topics central to contemporary philosophy. These include the history and philosophy of logic, deviant logics, inductive and abductive reasoning, informal reasoning, fallacy theory, the logic of fiction, epistemology, and abortion and euthanasia. Not only has Woods? work been significant in itself, it has also stimulated others working in these fields.Mistakes of Reason is a tribute to Woods and contains twenty-six new essays by leading Canadian and international philosophers. The essays are accompanied by commentaries by Woods himself, creating a unique dialogue between Woods and his colleagues. Editors Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine have grouped the works under the themes of Reality, Knowledge, Logic and Language, Reasoning, and Values. The essays evaluate Woods? work and celebrate the generous contribution that he has made to Canada?s intellectual development over the past forty years.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: John Woods in Profile / Peacock, Kent A. / Irvine, Andrew D. -- I. Reality -- 1. Through the Woods to Meinong's Jungle / Griffin, Nicholas -- 2. The Epsilon Logic of Fictions / Slater, B.H. -- 3. Animadversions on the Logic of Fiction and Reform of Modal Logic / Jacquette, Dale -- 4. Resolving the Skolem Paradox / Lehrer Dive, Lisa -- 5. Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible? / Rodych, Victor -- 6. A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke's Puzzle / Alward, Peter -- II. Knowledge -- 7. The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership / Van Fraassen, Bas C. -- 8. Cognitive Yearning and Fugitive Truth / Woods, John -- 9. The de Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability / Bartha, Paul -- 10. The Lottery Paradox / Weintraub, Jarett -- 11. Reliabilism and Inference to the Best Explanation / Ruhmkorff, Samuel -- Part Two: Respondeo / Woods, John -- III. Logic and Language -- 12. Aristotle and Modern Logic / Cutler, D.A. -- 13. The Peculiarities of Stoic Propositional Logic / Hitchcock, David -- 14. On the Substitutional Approach to Logical Consequence / Mckeon, Matthew -- 15. The Fallacy of Transitivity for Necessary Counterfactuals: On Behalf of (Certain) Non-Transitive Entailment Relations / Strand, Jonathan -- 16. Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic: On the Wright Track / Devidi, David -- 17. The Semantic Illusion / Jennings, R.E. -- Part Three: Respondeo / Woods, John -- IV. Reasoning -- 18. Arguing from Authority / Burkholder, Leslie -- 19. Premiss Acceptability and Truth / Freeman, James B. -- 20. Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments / Govier, Trudy -- 21. Temporal Agents / Cunningham, Jim -- 22. Filtration Structures and the Cut Down Problem for Abduction / Gabbay, Dov M. / Woods, John -- 23. Mistakes in Reasoning about Argumentation / Boger, George -- Part Four: Respondeo / Woods, John -- V. Values -- 24. Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change / Stingl, Michael -- 25. Incorrect English / Wreen, Michael -- 26. Ameliorating Computational Exhaustion in Artificial Prudence / Viminitz, Paul -- Part Five: Respondeo / Woods, John -- Contributors -- Books by John Woods -- Index