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Title: | Classical logic and its rivals |
Author(s): | Goodlin, Blair |
Director of Research: | McCarthy, Timothy G. |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | McCarthy, Timothy G. |
Doctoral Committee Member(s): | Chandler, Hugh S.; Wagner, Steven J.; Wengert, Robert G. |
Department / Program: | Philosophy |
Discipline: | Philosophy |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Language |
Abstract: | Classical logic and a given nonclassical logic are, by definition, incompatible in some sense. In some cases, this incompatibility is innocuous. In other cases, the nonclassical logic is incompatible with classical logic on a fundamental level, such that the two logics can be seen as rival theories of logical entailment and only one of them can succeed. I will explore the structure of these cases of logical rivalry by considering three examples: Dummett’s antirealism, Putnam’s response to results of quantum mechanics, and Tye’s response to vagueness. I will show that, despite the differences between these cases’ motivations and methods, they nevertheless all conform to a particular framework in challenging classical logic. Moreover, these diverse cases all characterize classical logic as the result of an unwarranted generalization from a limited and apparently privileged realm of entailment. |
Issue Date: | 2014-01-16 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46768 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2013 Blair F. Goodlin Jr. |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-01-16 |
Date Deposited: | 2013-12 |
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