Books by John Woods

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction: John Woods in Profile 1
6. I. Reality
7. 1. Through the Woods to Meinong’s Jungle 15
8. 2. The Epsilon Logic of Fictions 33
9. 3. Animadversions on the Logic of Fiction and Reform of Modal Logic 49
10. 4. Resolving the Skolem Paradox 64
11. 5. Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible? 78
12. 6. A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke’s Puzzle 93
13. II. Knowledge
14. 7. The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership 111
15. 8. Cognitive Yearning and Fugitive Truth 134
16. 9. The de Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability 158
17. 10. The Lottery Paradox 173
18. 11. Reliabilism and Inference to the Best Explanation 183
19. Part Two: Respondeo 197
20. III. Logic and Language
21. 12. Aristotle and Modern Logic 207
22. 13. The Peculiarities of Stoic Propositional Logic 224
23. 14. On the Substitutional Approach to Logical Consequence 243
24. 15. The Fallacy of Transitivity for Necessary Counterfactuals: On Behalf of (Certain) Non-Transitive Entailment Relations 264
25. 16. Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic: On the Wright Track 279
26. 17. The Semantic Illusion 296
27. Part Three: Respondeo 321
28. IV. Reasoning
29. 18. Arguing from Authority 331
30. 19. Premiss Acceptability and Truth 348
31. 20. Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments 364
32. 21. Temporal Agents 380
33. 22. Filtration Structures and the Cut Down Problem for Abduction 398
34. 23. Mistakes in Reasoning about Argumentation 418
35. Part Four: Respondeo 442
36. V. Values
37. 24. Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change 453
38. 25. Incorrect English 474
39. 26. Ameliorating Computational Exhaustion in Artificial Prudence 491
40. Part Five: Respondeo 504
41. Contributors 511
42. Books by John Woods 517
43. Index 521