Mistakes of reason : essays in honour of John Woods /

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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Other Authors: Irvine, A. D, Irvine, A. D. (Editor), Peacock, Kent A., 1952- (Editor), Woods, John (John Hayden)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005
Toronto ; Buffalo : 2005
Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : 2005
Series:Toronto studies in philosophy
Toronto studies in philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : John Woods in profile / Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine
  • 1 Through the Woods to Meinong's jungle / Nicholas Griffin
  • 2. The epsilon logic of fictions / B.H. Slater
  • 3. Animadversions on the logic of fiction and reform of modal logic / Dale Jacquette
  • 4. Resolving the Skolem paradox / Lisa Lehrer Dive
  • 5. Are platonism and pragmatism compatible? / Victor Rodych
  • 6. A neo-Hintikkan solution to Kripke's puzzle / Peter Alward
  • pt. 1. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 7. The day of the dolphins : puzzling over epistemic partnership / Bas C. Van Fraassen
  • 8. Cognitive yearning and fugitive truth / John Woods
  • 9. The de Finetti lottery and equiprobability / Paul Bartha
  • 10. The lottery paradox / Jarett Weintraub
  • 11. Reliabilism and inference to the best explanation / Samuel Ruhmkorff
  • pt. 2. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 12. Aristotle and modern logic / D.A. Cutler
  • 13. The peculiarities of Stoic propositional logic / David Hitchcock
  • 14. On the substitutional approach to logical consequence / Matthew McKeon
  • 15. The fallacy of transitivity for necessary counterfactuals : on behalf of (certain) non-transitive entailment relations / Jonathan Strand
  • 16. Vagueness and intuitionistic logic : on the Wright track / David Devidi
  • 17. The semantic illusion / R.E. Jennings
  • pt. 3. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 18. Arguing from authority / Leslie Burkholder
  • 19. Premiss acceptability and truth / James B. Freeman
  • 20. Emotion, relevance, and consolation arguments / Trudy Govier
  • 21. Temporal agents / Jim Cunningham
  • 22. Filtration structures and the cut down problem for abduction / Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods
  • 23. Mistakes in reasoning about argumentation / George Boger
  • pt. 4. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 24. Engineered death and the (il)logic of social change / Michael Stingl
  • 25. Incorrect English / Michael Wreen
  • 26. Ameliorating computational exhaustion in artificial prudence / Paul Viminitz
  • pt. 5. Respondeo / John Woods.
  • Introduction : John Woods in profile / Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine
  • 1 Through the Woods to Meinong's jungle / Nicholas Griffin
  • 2. The epsilon logic of fictions / B.H. Slater
  • 3. Animadversions on the logic of fiction and reform of modal logic / Dale Jacquette
  • 4. Resolving the Skolem paradox / Lisa Lehrer Dive
  • 5. Are platonism and pragmatism compatible? / Victor Rodych
  • 6. A neo-Hintikkan solution to Kripke's puzzle / Peter Alward
  • pt. 1. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 7. The day of the dolphins : puzzling over epistemic partnership / Bas C. Van Fraassen
  • 8. Cognitive yearning and fugitive truth / John Woods
  • 9. The de Finetti lottery and equiprobability / Paul Bartha
  • 10. The lottery paradox / Jarett Weintraub
  • 11. Reliabilism and inference to the best explanation / Samuel Ruhmkorff
  • pt. 2. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 12. Aristotle and modern logic / D.A. Cutler
  • 13. The peculiarities of Stoic propositional logic / David Hitchcock
  • 14. On the substitutional approach to logical consequence / Matthew McKeon
  • 15. The fallacy of transitivity for necessary counterfactuals : on behalf of (certain) non-transitive entailment relations / Jonathan Strand
  • 16. Vagueness and intuitionistic logic : on the Wright track / David Devidi
  • 17. The semantic illusion / R.E. Jennings
  • pt. 3. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 18. Arguing from authority / Leslie Burkholder
  • 19. Premiss acceptability and truth / James B. Freeman
  • 20. Emotion, relevance, and consolation arguments / Trudy Govier
  • 21. Temporal agents / Jim Cunningham
  • 22. Filtration structures and the cut down problem for abduction / Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods
  • 23. Mistakes in reasoning about argumentation / George Boger
  • pt. 4. Respondeo / John Woods
  • 24. Engineered death and the (il)logic of social change / Michael Stingl
  • 25. Incorrect English / Michael Wreen
  • 26. Ameliorating computational exhaustion in artificial prudence / Paul Viminitz
  • pt. 5. Respondeo / John Woods.