Woods, J orcid.org/0000-0001-8144-0910 (2019) Logical Partisanhood. Philosophical Studies, 176 (5). pp. 1203-1224. ISSN 0031-8116
Abstract
A natural suggestion and increasingly popular account of how to revise our logical beliefs treats revision of logic analogously to the revision of scientific theories (Hjortland, Priest, Russell, Williamson, etc.). I investigate this approach and argue that simple applications of abductive methodology to logic result in revision-cycles, developing a detailed case study of an actual dispute with this property. This is problematic if we take abductive methodology to provide justification for revising our logical framework. I then generalize the case study, pointing to similarities with more recent and popular heterodox logics such as naïve logics of truth. I use this discussion to motivate a constraint—logical partisanhood—on the uses of such methodology: roughly: both the proposed alternative and our actual background logic must be able to agree that moving to the alternative logic is no worse than staying put.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018, The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Logical revision; Abduction; Non-classical logics; Recapture theorems; Anti-exceptionalism about logic |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2018 13:45 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11098-018-1054-2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126338 |