Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods

✍ Scribed by Andrew D. Irvine (editor); Kent A. Peacock (editor)

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 545
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: John Woods in Profile
I. Reality
1. Through the Woods to Meinong’s Jungle
2. The Epsilon Logic of Fictions
3. Animadversions on the Logic of Fiction and Reform of Modal Logic
4. Resolving the Skolem Paradox
5. Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible?
6. A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke’s Puzzle
II. Knowledge
7. The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership
8. Cognitive Yearning and Fugitive Truth
9. The de Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability
10. The Lottery Paradox
11. Reliabilism and Inference to the Best Explanation
Part Two: Respondeo
III. Logic and Language
12. Aristotle and Modern Logic
13. The Peculiarities of Stoic Propositional Logic
14. On the Substitutional Approach to Logical Consequence
15. The Fallacy of Transitivity for Necessary Counterfactuals: On Behalf of (Certain) Non-Transitive Entailment Relations
16. Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic: On the Wright Track
17. The Semantic Illusion
Part Three: Respondeo
IV. Reasoning
18. Arguing from Authority
19. Premiss Acceptability and Truth
20. Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments
21. Temporal Agents
22. Filtration Structures and the Cut Down Problem for Abduction
23. Mistakes in Reasoning about Argumentation
Part Four: Respondeo
V. Values
24. Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change
25. Incorrect English
26. Ameliorating Computational Exhaustion in Artificial Prudence
Part Five: Respondeo
Contributors
Books by John Woods
Index

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