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The Force of Argument Jonathan Lear

The Force of Argument By Jonathan Lear

The Force of Argument by Jonathan Lear


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Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. This title brings together articles that honour Smiley's work. It is suitable for those working across the logical spectrum - in philosophy of language, philosophical and mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.

The Force of Argument Summary

The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley by Jonathan Lear

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotles 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 Smileys work. Their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrumin philosophy of language, philosophical and mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.

About Jonathan Lear

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.

Table of Contents

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. Smileys 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: logics 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

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NPB9780415801201
9780415801201
0415801206
The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley by Jonathan Lear
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-12-17
286
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