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8Introduction: Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical LogicIn Federico L. G. Faroldi & Frederik Van De Putte (eds.), Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-12. 2023.Kit Fine’s contribution to logic is vast and diverse; the chapters in this book deal with a significant part of it. In this introductory chapter, we clarify and contextualize the main themes of Fine’s work that are centre stage in this book, after which we give a summary of each chapter.
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48Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others. Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual conditionals, grounding, vagueness, non-classical consequence relations, and arbitrary objects, offering critical reflections and novel research contributions. Each chapter is accompanied by an extensive commentary, in which Kit Fine offers detailed respon…Read more
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84An impossibility result on methodological individualismPhilosophical Studies 178 (12): 4165-4185. 2021.Methodological individualists often claim that any social phenomenon can ultimately be explained in terms of the actions and interactions of individuals. Any Nagelian version of methodological individualism requires that there be bridge laws that translate social statements into individualistic ones. We show that Nagelian individualism can be put to logical scrutiny by making the relevant social and individualistic languages fully explicit and mathematically precise. In particular, we prove that…Read more
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13Adaptive strategies and finite-conditional premise setsJournal of Logic and Computation 26 (5). 2014.
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18“That Will Do”: Logics of Deontic Necessity and SufficiencyErkenntnis 82 (3): 473-511. 2017.We study a logic for deontic necessity and sufficiency, as originally proposed in van Benthem :36–41, 1979). Building on earlier work in modal logic, we provide a sound and complete axiomatization for it, consider some standard extensions, and study other important properties. After that, we compare this logic to the logic of “obligation as weakest permission” from Anglberger et al. :807–827, 2015).
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36A logic for the discovery of deterministic causal regularitiesSynthese 195 (1): 367-399. 2018.We present a logic, $$\mathbf {ELI^r}$$ ELI r, for the discovery of deterministic causal regularities starting from empirical data. Our approach is inspired by Mackie’s theory of causes as INUS-conditions, and implements a more recent adjustment to Mackie’s theory according to which the left-hand side of causal regularities is required to be a minimal disjunction of minimal conjunctions. To derive such regularities from a given set of data, we make use of the adaptive logics framework. Our knowl…Read more
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30Extending the standard format of adaptive logics to the prioritized caseLogique Et Analyse 120 (220): 601--641. 2012.
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