IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 315: Rules for Reasoning: Rule-Following in Inference and Disputation
Monday 9 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Tilburg Center for Logic & Philosophy of Science, Tilberg University |
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Organiser: | Sara L. Uckelman, Tilburg Center for Logic & Philosophy of Science, Tillburg University |
Moderator/Chair: | Sara L. Uckelman, Tilburg Center for Logic & Philosophy of Science, Tillburg University |
Paper 315-a | Inference Drawing in John Buridan (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Philosophy |
Paper 315-b | Rule-Following in Burley's Treatise on Consequences (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Philosophy |
Paper 315-c | Semantic Rules in Two 13th-Century Treatises on Supposition (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Philosophy |
Abstract | In the 13th and 14th century numerous text-books were written providing guides, in the form of rules, to students on how to draw proper logical inferences and how to use these inferences in different types of disputations. This session proposes to examine examples of rules and rule-following in logical textbooks to consider questions both of the normativity of the rules - are they prescriptive or descriptive? - as well as the role of counterexamples and objections to the rules in these textbooks. |