Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Recent approaches to the epistemology of logic, under the title of “anti-exceptionalism about logic”, explicitly adopt what is asserted to be the method of theory choice and the correct account of explanation in the sciences. Without embracing such a doctrine, but still keeping within a broad anti-exceptional trend, the current discussion proposes a contextual theory of explanation in logic, based on Bas van Fraassen’s framework of why-questions, which neither claims that logic is a science, nor relies on the metaphysical assumption of a validity-phenomenon to give account of the methodology of logic.
Author: Evelyn Erickson
Institution: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G2474334382, G2823776494, G8262246763
OpenAlex ID: W4401881068