The Force of Argument

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle's syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In this volume, an international roster of contributors discuss Smiley's work to date; their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrum-in philosophy of language, philosophical logic and mathematical logic.

Autorentext

Alex Oliver is Reader in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK.

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA.

Inhalt

Editors' Preface 1. Anthony Appiah Armchair Philosophy 2. Thomas Baldwin Accommodating Barbara 3. Myles Burnyeat Aristotle's Metaphora 4. James Cargile On Logical Form 5. Ian Hacking What Makes Mathematics Mathematics? 6. Lloyd Humberstone Inference vs Proof: Smiley on Rules 7. Rosanna Keefe Notions of Consequence 8. Jonathan Lear Irony as a Form of Argument 9. Alex Oliver Grammatical Form vs Logical Form 10. Michael Potter Mistakes 11. Graham Priest A Case of Mistaken Identity 12. Neil Tennant Inferential Semantics Bibliography of works by Timothy Smiley