Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Conceptual Roles - Paperback

by Ulf Hlobil (Author), Robert B. Brandom (Author)

This book presents a philosophical conception of logic - "logical expressivism"- according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive. It reveals new perspectives on inferential roles, sequent calculi, representation, truthmakers, and many extant logical theories.

Author Biography

Ulf Hlobil is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University. His publications include "Limits of Abductivism About Logic" (2020) and G.E.M. Anscombe: Aufsätze (2014, with Katharina Nieswandt).

Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include Making It Explicit (1994), Between Saying and Doing (2008), and A Spirit of Trust (2019). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.