Mistakes of Reason : : Essays in Honour of John Woods / / Kent A. Peacock, Andrew D. Irvine.
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,...
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Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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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