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Wadcast#7 Two Mortals Confront One Infinite Logic | with Alex Paseau & Owen GriffithsTwo brave philosophers, Alex Paseau & Owen Griffiths, scale the nature of logic. Their weapon? Reason. What awaits them is singular and infinite. How did mere mortals venture so far? Join them as they detail the journey of their new book, 'One True Logic'. Along the way, discover how advances in logic influenced a technological revolution, how logic makes us better people, and what Owen thinks of Taylor's 'Midnights'. One True LogicBuy from OUP: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-true-logic-9780198829713Buy from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/8slSaJMOxford academics and st...2023-01-1128 min
MCMP – LogicCapturing ConsequenceAlexander Paseau (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 April, 2015) titled "Capturing Consequence". Abstract: What reasons are there for revising our logic? One natural suggestion is that we should move from a logical theory L to L′ when L′ does “better” than L in terms of “simplicity, ontological leanness (Occam’s razor), explanatory power, a low degree of ad hocness, unity, [and] fruitfulness.” (Priest 2006, 147) This is to apply relatively familiar standards of scientific theory choice, such as inference to the best explanation, to the case of logic. There are special difficulties in the case of logic, however, since our choice of a lo...2015-05-1100 min