The laws of logic as laws of nature
Ole Hjortland will give the talk "The laws of logic as laws of nature".
Main content
Acquisition of knowledge in logic differs from other sciences only in degree, not in kind. This is the anti-exceptionalist agenda for logic, developed in recent work in the philosophy of logic. Existing approaches tend to share a focus on logical theories and theory-choice as opposed to the justification of individual laws of logic. Nonetheless, logical theories are still taken to include such laws, arguably in a capacity not unlike the laws of other sciences. This paper examines the viability of anti-exceptionalist conceptions of logical laws. It introduces a metaphysical anti-exceptionalism that complements its epistemological counterpart: nomic anti-exceptionalism.