Book Chapters (Philosophy)
Items in this Collection
- 7Pelletier, Francis J.
- 3Brigandt, Ingo
- 3Katalin Bimbó
- 3Morin, Marie-Eve
- 2Katalin Bimbó and J. Michael Dunn
- 2Schmitter, Amy M.
- 2Epistemology
- 2Metaphysics
- 2Nancy, Jean-Luc
- 2Semantics
- 12-valued logic, admissibility of the cut rule, axiomatic calculus for FOL, contraction measure, sequent calculus for FOL, single cut rule
- 1Abbreviations
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2010
Buridan was a brilliant logician and, thanks to his many students who spread his teachings and writings throughout universities in Italy and central Europe, one of the most influential interpreters of Aristotle in the later MA. His logical masterwork, the Summulae de Dialectica, is a...
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2012
This chapter investigates the rationale for having the lexical categories or features mass and count. Some theories make the features be syntactic; others make it be semantic. It is concluded here that none of the standard accounts of their function actually serve the purpose for which they are...
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2002
Introduction: ”The Logic of Judgments of Practice,” first published in 1915 and then re-printed as the concluding essay of Dewey’s 1916 Essays in Experimental Logic,has been recognized as an important statement of Dewey’s developingnaturalistic moral epistemology. It expands upon discussions to...
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2012
Pelletier, Francis J., Lepore, Ernest
This paper is an investigation into the role of linguistics in philosophical theorizing. In particular, we will show how linguistic evidence can be adduced in support of an event approach to action verbs and their adverbial modifiers: if we increase the adicity of verbs, if we allow there to be...
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2022-01-01
Katalin Bimbó and J. Michael Dunn
This paper considers modalities added to the relevance logic LR (lattice-R), which is R with the distributivity of conjunction and disjunction omitted. First, the modalities are defined from the Ackermann constants and the lattice connectives. Then, we introduce modalities as primitives equipped...
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2013
Pelletier, Francis J., Asher, Nicholas
In Pelletier and Asher (1997) we presented a modal conditional analysis of the semantic interpretation of characterizing generics (in the terminology of Krifka et al. 1995). Since that time there have been a number of advances to our understanding of this area: Cohen (1999a,b, 2005), Leslie...
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2011
In this chapter I lay out a notion of philosophical naturalism that aligns with pragmatism. It is developed and illustrated by a presentation of my views on natural kinds and my theory of concepts. Both accounts reflect a methodological naturalism and are defended no by way of metaphysical...
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2013
The Doctrine of Double Effect [DDE] states roughly that it is harder to justify causing or allowing harm as a means to an end than it is to justify conduct that results in harm as a side effect. This chapter argues that a theory of deontological constraints on harming needs something like the DDE...
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2022-01-01
The generalized Galois logic approach (i.e., gaggle theory), introduced by Dunn, provides a systematic way to define semantics for many substructural logics in the form of a relational representation of their Lindenbaum algebras. We provide an overview of some conceptual antecedents that we think...
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2011
Introduction: Philosophical questions about biology have been addressed by philosophers and scientists for centuries. Yet as a genuine discipline within philosophy, philosophy of biology started to emerge in the 1970s (Byron, 2007). One motivation for this was the fact that much of traditional...