Mistakes of reason : essays in honour of John Woods / edited by Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : John Woods in profile / Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine -- 1. Through the Woods to Meinong's jungle / Nicholas Griffin -- 2. The epsilon logic of fictions / B.H. Slater -- 3. Animadversions on the logic of fiction and reform of modal logic / Dale Jacquette -- 4. Resolving the Skolem paradox / Lisa Lehrer Dive -- 5. Are platonism and pragmatism compatible? / Victor Rodych -- 6. A neo-Hintikkan solution to Kripke's puzzle / Peter Alward -- pt. 1. Respondeo / John Woods -- 7. The day of the dolphins : puzzling over epistemic partnership / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- 8. Cognitive yearning and fugitive truth / John Woods -- 9. The de Finetti lottery and equiprobability / Paul Bartha -- 10. The lottery paradox / Jarett Weintraub -- 11. Reliabilism and inference to the best explanation / Samuel Ruhmkorff -- pt. 2. Respondeo / John Woods -- 12. Aristotle and modern logic / D.A. Cutler -- 13. The peculiarities of Stoic propositional logic / David Hitchcock -- 14. On the substitutional approach to logical consequence / Matthew McKeon -- 15. The fallacy of transitivity for necessary counterfactuals : on behalf of (certain) non-transitive entailment relations / Jonathan Strand -- 16. Vagueness and intuitionistic logic : on the Wright track / David Devidi -- 17. The semantic illusion / R.E. Jennings -- pt. 3. Respondeo / John Woods -- 18. Arguing from authority / Leslie Burkholder -- 19. Premiss acceptability and truth / James B. Freeman -- 20. Emotion, relevance, and consolation arguments / Trudy Govier -- 21. Temporal agents / Jim Cunningham -- 22. Filtration structures and the cut down problem for abduction / Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods -- 23. Mistakes in reasoning about argumentation / George Boger -- pt. 4. Respondeo / John Woods -- 24. Engineered death and the (il)logic of social change / Michael Stingl -- 25. Incorrect English / Michael Wreen -- 26. Ameliorating computational exhaustion in artificial prudence / Paul Viminitz -- pt. 5. Respondeo / John Woods.

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English.

Over a distinguished academic career, the Canadian philosopher and scholar John Woods has written on a rich variety of topics central to contemporary philosophy. These include the history and philosophy of logic, deviant logics, inductive and abductive reasoning, informal reasoning, fallacy theory, the logic of fiction, epistemology, and abortion and euthanasia. Not only has Woods? work been significant in itself, it has also stimulated others working in these fields.Mistakes of Reason is a tribute to Woods and contains twenty-six new essays by leading Canadian and international philosophers. The essays are accompanied by commentaries by Woods himself, creating a unique dialogue between Woods and his colleagues. Editors Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine have grouped the works under the themes of Reality, Knowledge, Logic and Language, Reasoning, and Values. The essays evaluate Woods? work and celebrate the generous contribution that he has made to Canada?s intellectual development over the past forty years.

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