Foundations of Logical Consequence, Hardback Book

Foundations of Logical Consequence Hardback

Edited by Colin R. (Yonsei University) Caret, Ole T. (University of Bergen) Hjortland

Part of the Mind Association Occasional Series series

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Logical consequence is the relation that obtains between premises and conclusion(s) in a valid argument. Orthodoxy has it that valid arguments are necessarily truth-preserving, but this platitude only raises a number of further questions, such as: how does the truth of premises guarantee the truth of a conclusion, and what constraints does validity impose on rational belief?

This volume presents thirteen essays by some of the most important scholars in the field of philosophical logic.

The essays offer ground-breaking new insights into the nature of logical consequence; the relation between logic and inference; how the semantics and pragmatics of natural language bear on logic; the relativity of logic; and the structural properties of the consequence relation.

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