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Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons
Pragmatics, Semantics, and Conceptual Roles
Ulf Hlobil,Robert B. Brandom
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Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons
Pragmatics, Semantics, and Conceptual Roles
Ulf Hlobil,Robert B. Brandom
About This Book
Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logicâ"logical expressivism"âaccording to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive. This conception of logic reveals new and enlightening perspectives on inferential roles, sequent calculi, representation, truthmakers, and many extant logical theories.
The book shows how we can understand different metavocabularies as making explicit the same reason relations, namely normative-pragmatic, alethic-representational, logical, and "implication-space" metavocabularies. This includes a philosophical account of the pragmatic role of reason relations, treatments of nonmonotonic and nontransitive consequence relations in sequent calculi, a correspondence between these sequent calculi and variants of truthmaker theory, and the introduction of a novel kind of formal semantics that interprets sentences by assigning inferential roles to them. The book thus offers logical expressivists and semantic inferentialists new ways to understand logic, content, inferential roles, representation, and reason relations.
This book will appeal to researchers and graduate students who are interested in the philosophy of logic, in reasons and reasoning, in theories of meaning and content, or in nonmonotonic and nontransitive logics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Endorsements Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Metavocabularies of Reason
- 1 A Pragmatic Metavocabulary
- 2 Logical Expressivism and the Open Structure of Reasons
- 3 Introducing Logical Vocabulary
- 4 Truth-Taking and Truth-Making
- 5 Implication-Space Semantics
- 6 Conclusion
- Epilogue: A Speculative Synthesis
- Bibliography
- Index