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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780917903321

Titolo

The force of argument : essays in honor of Timothy Smiley / / edited by Jonathan Lear and Alex Oliver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-16584-X

1-135-16585-8

1-282-97426-2

9786612974267

0-203-85981-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; ; 18

Altri autori (Persone)

LearJonathan

OliverAlex

SmileyT. J (Timothy John)

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Logic

Philosophy, Modern - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Philosophy In and Out of the Armchair; 2 Restricted Quantifiers and Logical Theory; 3 Logical Form; 4 The Socratic Elenchus: No Problem; 5 What Makes Mathematics Mathematics?; 6 Smiley's Distinction Between Rules of Inference and Rules of Proof; 7 Relative Validity and Vagueness; 8 The Force of Irony; 9 The Matter of Form: Logic's Beginnings; 10 Abstractionist Class Theory: Is There Any Such Thing?; 11 A Case of Mistaken Identity?

12 Inferential Semantics for First-Order Logic: Motivating Rules of Inference from Rules of EvaluationBibliography of Works by Timothy Smiley; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle's syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In



this volume, an international roster of contributors discuss Smiley's work to date; their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrum-in philosophy of language, philosophical logic and mathematical logic.