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Identifying Logical Evidence
1 : Queen's University (Canada)
With the recognised weakness of historically prevalent account of logical knowledge, in terms of intuition and analyticity, a renewed interest in logical epistemology has been sparked. One recent suggestion is that we come to know logical claims similarly to how scientists know truths about the world, through abduction. However, at present, it's unclear exactly which data logical theories should have to explain, and how we should weight the competing strengths and weaknesses of logical theories. This talk proposes looking at historically important logical disagreements, and extracting from these debates an account of which data successful logical theories must accommodate.
