Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Conceptual Roles

by Robert B. Brandom and Ulf Hlobil

Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic--"logical expressivism"--according 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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032360763
• ISBN13: 9781032360768
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"