New Waves in Philosophical Logic

by Restall, Greg; Russell, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780230251748
• ISBN10: 0230251749
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism, and dynamic semantics.

Author Biography

Greg Restall is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University, as well as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author of An Introduction to Substructural Logics (2000), Logic: An Introduction (2006) and, with JC Beall, Logical Pluralism (2006), as well as over 60 articles in refereed journals and edited collections. He is the founding editor of the Australasian Journal of formal Logic. Gillian Russell is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Washington University in St Louis, USA. She has been Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, a visiting fellow at UC Berkeley, and a visiting fellow at TiLPS in the Netherlands. She is the author of Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (2008) and the editor, with Delia Graff Fara, of the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Her papers have appeared in Synthese, The Journal of Philosophical Logic and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
How Things Are Elsewhere; W.Schwarz
Dynamic Semantics; A.Gillies
First-Order Dynamic Epistemic Logic; B.Kooi
Interpreting and Applying Proof Theories for Modal Logics; F.Poggiolesi & G.Restall
The Logic of Modal Knowledge; D.Cohnitz
Probabilistically Closed Languages; H.Leitgeb
Dogmatism, Probability and Logical Uncertainty; B.Weatherson & D.Jehle
Second-Guessing: A Self-Help Manual; S.Rousch, K.Allen & I.Herbert
What Current Philosophy and Logic Can Learn From Medieval Obligations; C.Dutilh Novaes
How to Rule Out Things With Words: Paraconsistency and the Algebra of Exclusion; F.Berto
Indexicality and Logic; G.Russell
The Multitude View on Logic; M.Eklund
Index