Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: John Woods in Profile  KENT A. PEACOCK and ANDREW D. IRVINE

1. Reality
   1. Through the Woods to Meinong’s Jungle  NICHOLAS GRIFFIN
   2. The Epsilon Logic of Fictions B.H. SLATER
   3. Animadversions on the Logic of Fiction and Reform of Modal Logic  DALEJACQUETTE
   4. Resolving the Skolem Paradox  LISA LEHRER DIVE
   5. Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible?  VICTOR RODYCH
   6. A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke’s Puzzle  PETER ALWARD
      PartOne: Respondeo  JOHN WOODS
2. Knowledge
   7. The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership BASC. VAN FRAASSEN
   8. Cognitive Yearning and Fugitive Truth  JOHN WOODS
   9. The de Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability  PAUL BARTHA
   10. The Lottery Paradox  JARETT WEINTRAUB
   11. Reliabilism and Inference to the Best Explanation SAMUEL RUHMKORFF
       Part Two: Respondeo  JOHNWOODS
3. Logic and Language
   12. Aristotle and Modern Logic  D.A. CUTLER
   13. The Peculiarities of Stoic Propositional Logic  DAVID HITCHCOCK
   14. On the Substitutional Approach to Logical Consequence  MATTHEWMCKEON
   15. The Fallacy of Transitivity for Necessary Counterfactuals:On Behalf of (Certain) Non-Transitive Entailment Relations JONATHAN STRAND
   16. Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic: On theWright Track DAVID DEVIDI
   17. The Semantic Illusion  R.E. JENNINGS
       Part Three: Respondeo  JOHNWOODS
4. Reasoning
   18. Arguing from Authority  LESLIE BURKHOLDER
   19. Premiss Acceptability and Truth  JAMES B. FREEMAN
   20. Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments  TRUDY GOVIER
   21. Temporal Agents  JIM CUNNINGHAM
   22. Filtration Structures and the Cut Down Problem for Abduction DOV M.GABBAY and JOHN WOODS
   23. Mistakes in Reasoning about Argumentation  GEORGE BOGER
       PartFour: Respondeo  JOHN WOODS
5. Values
   24. Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change  MICHAELSTINGL
   25. Incorrect English  MICHAEL WREEN
   26. Ameliorating Computational Exhaustion in Artificial Prudence PAULVIMINITZ
       PartFive: Respondeo JOHN WOODS

Contributors

Books by John Woods

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