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Logic, Reasoning and Revision
Author(s) -
Allo Patrick
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/theo.12071
Subject(s) - doxastic logic , epistemology , philosophy of logic , skepticism , epistemic modal logic , context (archaeology) , deductive reasoning , relation (database) , computer science , cognitive science , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , multimodal logic , psychology , description logic , paleontology , biology , database
The traditional connection between logic and reasoning has been under pressure ever since Gilbert Harman attacked the received view that logic yields norms for what we should believe. In this article I first place Harman's challenge in the broader context of the dialectic between logical revisionists like Bob Meyer and sceptics about the role of logic in reasoning like Harman. I then develop a formal model based on contemporary epistemic and doxastic logic in which the relation between logic and norms for belief can be captured.