Barriers to Entailment - Hume''s Law and Other Limits on Logical Consequence

Barriers to Entailment is a book about the limits of logic and their philosophical implications. Gillian Russell shows how, in each of five domains--universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity-- certain kinds of argument are logically unavailable.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Part One: Getting Started


• 1: Survey of counterexamples


• 2: Universality


• 3: Time


• 4: General barrier theorems


• 5: Modality


• Part 2: Getting complex


• 6: Can, should, will


• 7: Context-Sensitivity


• 8: Normativity


• 9: All the barriers


• Part 3: Getting Informal


• 10: Informal models, informal logic


• 11: Informal Barriers


• Latex Symbol List


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Gillian K, Russell is Professor in philosophy at Australian National University in Canberra. Her PhD is from Princeton University (2004) and in the interim she has been a postdoc at the University of Alberta, Assistant and Associate Professor at Washington University in St Louis, Professor and Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Professor at the Dianoia Research Institute at ACU Melbourne, and a Professorial Fellow at the Arché Research Center at the University of St Andrews. She mostly works in the philosophy of language and logic, and her previous books include Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian K. Russell, Prof Gillian K. (Professor of Philosophy Russell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198980148
• ISBN: 978-0-19-898014-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: logic