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John MacFarlane is an American professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley interested in logic and metaphysics. He has made influential contributions to truth-value theory inferential semantics.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY THAT LOGIC IS FORMAL? John Gordon MacFarlane, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2000 Much philosophy of logic is shaped, explicitly or implicitly, by the thought that logic is distinctively formal and abstracts from material content. The distinction between formal
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John Burgesscharacterizes philosophical logic as a branch of formal logic: “Philosophical logic as understood here is the part of logic dealing with what classical logic leaves out, or allegedly gets wrong” (Burgess
John MacFarlane. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh ( 2000 ) Copy BIBTEX. Abstract. Much philosophy of logic is shaped, explicitly or implicitly, by the thought that logic is distinctively formal and abstracts from material content.
Jul 1, 2000 · John MacFarlane, “Abelard’s Argument for Formality”, in Formal Approaches and Natural Language in Medieval Logic, ed. Laurent Cesalli and Alain de Libera and Frédéric Goubier (Barcelona, Roma: Brepols, 2015), 41–57.
In this book, John MacFarlane helps the reader think about the limitations of, presuppositions of, and alternatives to classical first-order predicate logic, making this an ideal introduction to...
John MacFarlane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His early work in the philosophy of logic sought to shed light on debates about the demarcation of logic by uncovering their history.
