Mistakes of Reason : : Essays in Honour of John Woods /

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

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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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Irvine, Andrew D.,
Peacock, Kent A.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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

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