Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods

✍ Scribed by Andrew D. Irvine, Kent A. Peacock (editors)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 546
• Edition: First.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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, the logic of fiction, epistemology, and abortion and euthanasia. Not only has Woods' work been significant in itself, it has also stimulated others working in these fields.Mistakes of Reason is a tribute to Woods and contains twenty-six new essays by leading Canadian and international philosophers. The essays are accompanied by commentaries by Woods himself, creating a unique dialogue between Woods and his colleagues. Editors Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine have grouped the works under the themes of Reality, Knowledge, Logic and Language, Reasoning, and Values. 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......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: John Woods in Profile......Page 16
I: Reality......Page 26
1 Through the Woods to Meinong’s Jungle......Page 28
2 The Epsilon Logic of Fictions......Page 46
3 Animadversions on the Logic of Fiction and Reform of Modal Logic......Page 62
4 Resolving the Skolem Paradox......Page 77
5 Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible?......Page 91
6 A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke’s Puzzle......Page 106
Part One: Respondeo......Page 116
II: Knowledge......Page 122
7 The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership......Page 124
8 Cognitive Yearning and Fugitive Truth......Page 147
9 The de Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability......Page 171
10 The Lottery Paradox......Page 186
11 Reliabilism and Inference to the Best Explanation......Page 196
Part Two: Respondeo......Page 210
III: Logic and Language......Page 218
12 Aristotle and Modern Logic......Page 220
13 The Peculiarities of Stoic Propositional Logic......Page 237
14 On the Substitutional Approach to Logical Consequence......Page 256
15 The Fallacy of Transitivity for Necessary Counterfactuals: On Behalf of (Certain) Non-Transitive Entailment Relations......Page 277
16 Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic: On the Wright Track......Page 292
17 The Semantic Illusion......Page 309
Part Three: Respondeo......Page 334
IV: Reasoning......Page 342
18 Arguing from Authority......Page 344
19 Premiss Acceptability and Truth......Page 361
20 Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments......Page 377
21 Temporal Agents......Page 393
22 Filtration Structures and the Cut Down Problem for Abduction......Page 411
23 Mistakes in Reasoning about Argumentation......Page 431
Part Four: Respondeo......Page 455
V: Values......Page 464
24 Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change......Page 466
25 Incorrect English......Page 487
26 Ameliorating Computational Exhaustion in Artificial Prudence......Page 504
Part Five: Respondeo......Page 517
Contributors......Page 524
Books......Page 530
B......Page 534
C......Page 535
E......Page 536
G......Page 537
I......Page 538
L......Page 539
M......Page 540
P......Page 541
R......Page 542
S......Page 543
T......Page 544
W......Page 545
Z......Page 546