Gillian K Russell

Barriers to Entailment

Hume's Law and Other Limits on Logical Consequence. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 320 Seiten
ISBN 0198980140
EAN 9780198980148
Veröffentlicht 22. November 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Barriers to Entailment is a book about the limits of logic and their philosophical implications. Gillian Russell shows how, in each of five domains--universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity-- certain kinds of argument are logically unavailable.

Portrait

Gillian K, Russell is Professor in philosophy at Australian National University in Canberra. Her PhD is from Princeton University (2004) and in the interim she has been a postdoc at the University of Alberta, Assistant and Associate Professor at Washington University in St Louis, Professor and Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Professor at the Dianoia Research Institute at ACU Melbourne, and a Professorial Fellow at the Arché Research Center at the University of St Andrews. She mostly works in the philosophy of language and logic, and her previous books include Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction.