... of facts, in fundamentality and grounding, in the metaphysics of modality, in ontology, and in the intersection of logic and metaphysics. In the end, should we be factalists? The most compelling evidence in favor of factalism, I believe, might be scientific in character. Shamik Dasgupta (2009) has...

... need in order to write the “book of the world.” This paper attempts to make good on this metaphor. To that end, a modality is introduced that, put informally, stands to propositions as logical truth stands to sentences. The resulting theory, formulated in higher-order logic, also vindicates the Humean...

...Umrao Sethi sethi@brandeis.edu Gupta Anil , Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2019 440 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 It is incumbent upon philosophers of mind and epistemologists alike to study the links...

...Robert Stern James W. Allard, The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 241 pp. Cornell University 2008 BOOK REVIEWS James W. Allard, The Logical Foundations...

...William H. Hanson Cornell University 2002 Hanson, William H. 1997 . “The Concept of Logical Consequence.” Philosophical Review 106 : 365 -409. ____. 1999 . “Ray on Tarski on Logical Consequence.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 28 : 607 -18. Kaplan, David. 1979...

...John MacFarlane Colin McGinn, Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 114. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS If the complement clause ascribes a first-person content, it expresses...

...Thomas Uebel CARNAP'S CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD: THE AUFBAU AND THE EMERGENCE OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM. By Alan W. Richardson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 242. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REWEWS enough to secure obedience to law...

...Gila Sher Cornell University 2001 Aristotle. Topics, book 1. In The Basic Works of Aristotle , ed. R. McKeon, 188 -206. New York: Random House, 1941 . Feferman, S. 1999 . “Logic, Logics, and Logicism.” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 40 : 31 -54. Frege, G. 1879...

...John MacFarlane Cornell University 2002 Arnauld, A., and P. Nicole. 1662 . La Logique, ou l'art de penser (known as the “Port-Royal Logic”). Paris. Translation in Arnauld and Nicole 1996. ____. 1996 . Logic or the Art of Thinking . Translated by Jill Vance Buroker. Cambridge...

...Francesco Ademollo Jonathan Barnes, Truth, etc.: Six Lectures on Ancient Logic . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 551 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge...

... 122 BOOK REVIEWS David Christensen, Putting Logic in Its Place. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 187 pp. David Christensen’s book is concerned with the relationship between logic and epistemic rationality. It is common to suppose that these are tightly...

...Christopher Menzel LOGIC AND REALITY: ESSAYS ON THE LEGACY OF ARTHUR PRIOR. By J. Copeland, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 545. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REmWS Lehmann, D., and M. Magidor. 1992. “What Does a Conditional Knowl- edge...

... quite sure what to recommend to my colleagues, given how bewildering the literature within linguistics, computer science, and psychology can be even to specialists on the topic. But I am pleased to report that at long last, we have a book that fits the bill. Between Logic and the World serves...

...Ian Blecher Lu-Adler Huaping , Kant and the Science of Logic . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xxiv + 244 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 “My ultimate and most important goal,” says Huaping Lu-Adler, is to explain “Kant's account of logic as a ‘science...

...Stephen Houlgate The idea that life is, logically, “an enabling and constraining presupposition of cognition” (280) is, indeed, suggested by the chapters on “life” and “the idea of cognition” toward the end of the Logic . It is also, and most obviously, advanced in Hegel’s philosophies...

...Stephan Krämer Trueman Robert , Properties and Propositions: The Metaphysics of Higher-Order Logic . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . xi + 227 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 A singular term like ‘Socrates’, if all goes well, refers to an object...

...E. J. Ashworth Walter Burley, On the Purity of the Art of Logic: The Shorter and the Longer Treatises. Translated by Paul Vincent Spade. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 323. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Michael Kremer Ian Proops, Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. New York: Garland, 2000. Pp. xxii, 121. Cornell University 2002 Anscombe, G. E. M. 1971 . An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Proops, Ian. 2002...

...Yde Venema MODAL LOGIC. Oxford Logic Guides 35. By Alexander Chagrov and Michael Zakharyaschev. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 605. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REWEWS Priorean.” Van Benthem seems to dismiss out of hand...

... choice between extremes, but I thought the cases might be explained by his all-or-nothing view of being in particular, rather than a logical principle applying to all predicates. Regardless, the issues are subtle, and Sattler’s discussion is rewarding. Parmenides sets the program by articulating...