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Title: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract:聽In their 2020 paper “FDE all the way up”, Beall and Camrud aim to defend a particular combinatorial argument for the paraconsistent and paracomplete logic FDE against a natural objection. The argument, roughly, states that, since logic must consider all possibilities, it is…

Title: Logical Akrasia Abstract:聽The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses how logical akrasia relates to the standards of epistemic rationality, and in particular, how logical akrasia might pose a challenge to the tenability of the controversial 铿亁ed point thesis.

Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which logic is concerned, a number of logics exist that give the feature of topic or subject-matter equal weight. Just as we expect compositional truth conditions to extend to the entirety…

Title: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions are types of cognitive acts that derive their representational and truth-conditional properties from the token cognitive acts of agents. Act-type theories have been gaining traction as part of a rejection…

Title: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of聽what聽proofs serve for, since the antiquity聽two possible answers have been identified: on the one hand, a proof can serve to show that something is true,聽on the other hand, a proof can also serve to explain why something is…