 | The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley Subjects: Humanities; Mathematics & Statistics; History & Philosophy of Mathematics; Philosophy; Logic - Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle's syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In this volume, an international roster of contributorsnbsp;discuss Smiley's work to date; their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrum--in philosophy of language, philosophical logic and mathematical logic. Alex Oliver isnbsp;Reader in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK. Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA. nbsp; nbsp; |
