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Conclusion
In the Logic of Philosophy Eric Weil seeks to lead philosophy to grasp itself philosophically. In order to do this, he thinks that understanding...
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Popper’s Correspondence with Peter Schroeder-Heister
Peter Schroeder-Heister (b. 1953) is a German philosopher and logician whose research focuses on the foundations of deductive reasoning, in...
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Carnap’s Problem, Definability and Compositionality
In his Formalization of Logic (1943) Carnap pointed out that there are non-normal interpretations of classical logic: non-standard interpretations of...
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Normative disagreement: a functional account for inferentialists
There was a time when meta-ethical expressivism seemed to be the only game in town for meta-ethical non-representationalists. In recent years,...
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A forgotten logical expressivist: Strawson’s philosophy of logic and its challenges
P.F. Strawson contributed to many philosophical domains, including the philosophy of language, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, moral...
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Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality
The structuralist approach represents the relation between a model and physical system as a relation between two mathematical structures. However,...
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Brandom on Pragmatism
A number of leading philosophers today subscribe to pragmatism in a form or another. “Post-analytic” philosophers such as Hilary Putnam and Richard...
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Towards a theory of abduction based on conditionals
Abduction is considered the most powerful, but also the most controversially discussed type of inference. Based on an analysis of Peirce’s...
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Indicative Conditionals in Awareness Framework
We propose a novel approach to capturing the acceptability conditions of indicative conditionals using awareness logic. Specifically, we posit that...
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Inferentialist semantics for lexicalized social meanings
This paper offers a general model of the semantics of lexicalized social meanings, i.e. semiotic properties of certain expressions in a...
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Knot much like tonk
Connectives such as Tonk have posed a significant challenge to the inferentialist. It has been recently argued (Button 2016; Button and Walsh 2018)...
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Grue, Tonk, and Russell’s Paradox: What Follows from the Principle of Propositional Priority?
In this chapter, the structural connections between three paradoxes—Goodman’s ‘grue’, Prior’s ‘tonk’, and Russell’s—are traced. It is argued that...
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The Language of Conflict and Violence
Both Weil and expressive inferential pragmatism should be understood as presenting us with an underlying theory about orders of explanation....
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Where Are Ethical Properties? Predication, Location, and Category Mistake
The debate between expressivism and representationalism raises the question of whether ethical claimsEthicsethical claims should be analyzed as...
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Pluralism in reasoning: how to legitimate material inferences
Wilfrid Sellars’s suggestion that there are valid material inferences entails that validity is not limited to formal inferences. Because material...
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The Inferential View
In this chapter we discuss accounts of scientific representation that analyse representation in terms of the inferential role that models play in...
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Deduction at the Crossroads
I provide a general introduction to the notion at issue in this volume, i.e. deduction, and to some akin notions like inference and reasoning. I also...