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Questions and Answers on Formal Philosophy

“Questions and Answers on Formal Philosophy,” pages 97–104 in Masses of Formal Philosophy, edited by Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symonds, Automatic Press, 2006

My entry in a book of interviews of philosophers who work on the more formal side of the discipline. It gives an account of how I got into this area, what I think logic is good for – when it comes to philosophy – and where I think we should head.

Details

Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2006

Local file: masses.pdf (169KB)

Subjects: meaning metaethics opinion pluralism

About

I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

Start at the home page—a summary of the site. The left column is news, archived on the news archive page. The central column is for photos, archived on the occasional photos page. The right column contains recent items from the writing page, which lists my publications. These are also categorised by topic. You can follow my links at my account on delicious and occasional short snarky remarks at @consequently on twitter.

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Thought

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contigent and their opposites are possible.
— Gottfried Leibniz Monadology.