Mistakes of Reason

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Pub. Date: 2006-01-30
Publisher(s): Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

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 Reasonis 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

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: John Woods in Profile
KENT A. PEACOCK AND ANDREW D. IRVINE
3(12)
I Reality
1 Through the Woods to Meinong's Jungle
NICHOLAS GRIFFIN
15(18)
2 The Epsilon Logic of Fictions
B.H. SLATER
33(16)
3 Animadversions on the Logic of Fiction and Reform of Modal Logic
DALE JACQUETTE
49(15)
4 Resolving the Skolem Paradox
LISA LEHRER DIVE
64(14)
5 Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible?
VICTOR RODYCH
78(15)
6 A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke's Puzzle
PETER ALWARD
93(10)
Part One: Respondeo
JOHN WOODS
103(94)
II Knowledge
7 The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership
BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN
111(23)
8 Cognitive Yearning and Fugitive Truth
JOHN WOODS
134(24)
9 The de Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability
PAUL BARTHA
158(15)
10 The Lottery Paradox
JARETT WEINTRAUB
173(10)
11 Reliabilism and Inference to the Best Explanation
SAMUEL RUHMKORFF
183(14)
Part Two: Respondeo
JOHN WOODS
197(124)
III Logic and Language
12 Aristotle and Modern Logic
D.A. CUTLER
207(17)
13 The Peculiarities of Stoic Propositional Logic
DAVID HITCHCOCK
224(19)
14 On the Substitutional Approach to Logical Consequence
MATTHEW MCKEON
243(21)
15 The Fallacy of Transitivity for Necessary Counterfactuals: On Behalf of (Certain) Non-Transitive Entailment Relations
JONATHAN STRAND
264(15)
16 Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic: On the Wright Track
DAVID DEVIDI
279(17)
17 The Semantic Illusion
R.F. JENNINGS
296(25)
Part Three: Respondeo
JOHN WOODS
321(121)
IV Reasoning
18 Arguing from Authority
LESLIE BERKHOLDER
331(17)
19 Premiss Acceptability and Truth
JAMES B. FREEMAN
348(16)
20 Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments
TRUDY GOVIER
364(16)
21 Temporal Agents
JIM CUNNINGHAM
380(18)
22 Filtration Structures and the Cut Down Problem for Abduction
DOV M. GABBAY and JOHN WOODS
398(20)
23 Mistakes in Reasoning about Argumentation
GEORGE BOGER
418(24)
Part Four: Respondeo
JOHN WOODS
442(62)
V Values
24 Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change
MICHAEL STINGL
453(21)
25 Incorrect English
MICHAEL WREEN
474(17)
26 Ameliorating Computational Exhaustion in Artificial Prudence
PAUL VIMINITZ
491
Part Five: Respondeo
JOHN WOODS
504(7)
Contributors 511(6)
Books by John Woods 517(4)
Index 521

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