Overview

Logical consequence is the relation that obtains between premises and conclusion(s) in a valid argument. Orthodoxy has it that valid arguments are necessarily truth-preserving, but this platitude only raises a number of further questions, such as: how does the truth of premises guarantee the truth of a conclusion, and what constraints does validity impose on rational belief? This volume presents thirteen essays by some of the most important scholars in the field of philosophical logic. The essays offer ground-breaking new insights into the nature of logical consequence; the relation between logic and inference; how the semantics and pragmatics of natural language bear on logic; the relativity of logic; and the structural properties of the consequence relation.

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Author:   Colin R. Caret (Yonsei University) ,  Ole T. Hjortland (University of Bergen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9780198715696

ISBN 10:   0198715692
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   14 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface I Introduction 1: Colin R. Caret & Ole T. Hjortland: Logical Consequence: Its nature, structure, and application II Consequence: Models and Proofs 2: Hartry Field: What is Logical Validity? 3: Michael Glanzberg: Logical Consequence and Natural Language 4: Graham Priest: Is the Ternary R Depraved? 5: Stephen Read: Proof-Theoretic Validity III Properties and Structure of Logical Consequence 6: Vann McGee: The Categoricity of Logic 7: Stewart Shapiro: The Meaning of Logical Terms 8: Elia Zardini: Breaking the Chains: Following-from and Transitivity 9: Jc Beall: Non-Detachable Validity and Deflationism IV Applications of Logical Consequence 10: David Ripley: Embedding Denial 11: Greg Restall: Assertion, Denial, Accepting, Rejecting, Symmetry & Paradox 12: Heinrich Wansing: Knowability Remixed 13: J. Robert G. Williams: Accuracy, Logic and Degree of Belief Index

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a most welcome collection of writings ... They represent some of the most important contemporary thoughts on a wide range of significant questions in philosophical logic, encompassing prooftheoretic and modeltheoretic accounts of validity, natural languages, relevant implication, logical relativism, deflationism about truth. * Victor V. Pambuccian, zbMATH *

Author Information

Colin R. Caret is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Underwood International College, Yonsei University, South Korea. Caret earned his PhD from the University of Connecticut and held a previous appointment as a Research Fellow in the Arché Research Centre (University of St Andrews). ; Ole T. Hjortland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. Hjortland has a PhD from the University of St Andrews. He has worked as a Research Fellow in the Arché Research Centre (University of St Andrews) and as Assistant Professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU).

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