New book: "Foundations of Logical Consequence"
The book is edited by Ole T. Hjortland (University of Bergen) og Colin R. Caret (Yonsei University) and is the first collection of essays dedicated to the philosophical foundations of logic.

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About the Book
ABOUT THE BOOK (from Oxford University Press)
- The first collection of essays dedicated to the philosophical foundations of logic
- Original work by experts in the field
- Will shape the direction of future debate
Logical consequence is the relation that obtains between premises and conclusion(s) in a valid argument. Orthodoxy has it that valid arguments are necessarily truth-preserving, but this platitude only raises a number of further questions, such as: how does the truth of premises guarantee the truth of a conclusion, and what constraints does validity impose on rational belief? This volume presents thirteen essays by some of the most important scholars in the field of philosophical logic. The essays offer ground-breaking new insights into the nature of logical consequence; the relation between logic and inference; how the semantics and pragmatics of natural language bear on logic; the relativity of logic; and the structural properties of the consequence relation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
I Introduction
Ìý1: Colin R. Caret & Ole T. Hjortland: Logical Consequence: Its nature, structure, and application
II Consequence: Models and Proofs
Ìý2: Hartry Field: What is Logical Validity?
Ìý3: Michael Glanzberg: Logical Consequence and Natural Language
Ìý4: Graham Priest: Is the Ternary R Depraved?
Ìý5: Stephen Read: Proof-Theoretic Validity
III Properties and Structure of Logical Consequence
Ìý6: Vann McGee: The Categoricity of Logic
Ìý7: Stewart Shapiro: The Meaning of Logical Terms
Ìý8: Elia Zardini: Breaking the Chains: Following-from and Transitivity
Ìý9: Jc Beall: Non-Detachable Validity and Deflationism
IV Applications of Logical Consequence
Ìý10: David Ripley: Embedding Denial
Ìý11: Greg Restall: Assertion, Denial, Accepting, Rejecting, Symmetry & Paradox
Ìý12: Heinrich Wansing: Knowability Remixed
Ìý13: J. Robert G. Williams: Accuracy, Logic and Degree of Belief
ÌýIndex