Logic is Not Science

In Sanderson Molick (ed.), Demarcating logic and science: exploring new frontiers. Springer (forthcoming)
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Abstract

I argue that logic is unlike science in its methodology, thus rejecting anti-exceptionalism about logic. Logic has a mathematical and a philosophical part. In its mathematical part, the methodology of logic is like that of mathematics, and no need to choose between theories arises in that part. In its philosophical part, the methodology of logic is like that of philosophy. Philosophy and mathematics are both unlike the empirical sciences in their methodology. So logic is unlike the empirical sciences in its methodology. I end by looking at disagreements about the liar paradox as an example.

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Ulf Hlobil
Concordia University

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