Barriers to Entailment: Hume's Law and other Limits on Logical Consequence by Pr

Description: Barriers to Entailment by Prof Gillian K. Russell, Gillian K. Russell Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Barriers to Entailment is a book about the limits of logic and their philosophical implications. Gillian Russell shows how, in each of five domains--universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity--- certain kinds of argument are logically unavailable. Publisher Description A barrier to entailment exists if you cant get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Humes Law, which says that you cant get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in slogan form: you cant get an ought from an is. This barrier is highly controversial, and many famous counterexamples were proposed in the last century. But there are other barriers which function almost as philosophical platitudes: no Universal conclusions from Particular premises, no Future conclusions from premises about the Past, and no claims that attribute Necessity from premises that merely tell us how things happen to be in the Actual world. Barriers to Entailment proposes a unified logical account of five barriers that have played important roles in philosophy, in the process showing how to diagnose proposed counterexamples and arguing that the case for Humes Law is as strong as that for the platitudinous barriers.The first two parts of the book employ techniques from formal logic, but present them in an accessible way, suitable for any reader with some background in first-order model theory (of the kind that might be taught in a first class in logic). Gillian Russell introduces tense, modal, indexical, and deontic formal logics, but always avoids unneeded complexity. Each barrier is connected to broader philosophical topics: universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity. Russell brings out under-recognised connections between the domains and lays the groundwork for further work at the intersections.The last part of the book transposes the formal work to informal barrier theses in the philosophy of language, in the process doing new work on the concept of logical consequence, and providing new responses to proposed informal counterexamples to Humes Law which employ hard-to-formalise tools from natural language, such as speech acts and thick normative expressions. Author Biography Since gaining her PhD in philosophy at Princeton University in 2004, Gillian Russell has been a postdoc at the University of Alberta, Assistant and Associate Professor at Washington University in St Louis, Professor and Alumni Distinguished Professor at the UNC Chapel Hill, and a Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She has recently moved to Australia, where she works for the Dianoia Research Institute in Analytic Philosophy at Australia Catholic University in Melbourne. Her work focuses on the philosophy of language and logic, and her previous books include Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/synthetic Distinction. Details ISBN 019287473X ISBN-13 9780192874733 Title Barriers to Entailment Author Prof Gillian K. Russell, Gillian K. Russell Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 320 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:158556536; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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