Mistakes of Reason : Essays in Honour of John Woods.
The essays evaluate Woods' work and celebrate the generous contribution that he has made to Canada's intellectual development over the past forty years.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Peacock, Kent A. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- 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
- Part One: Respondeo
- 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
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
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