Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis

This book offers a comprehensive account of logic that addresses fundamental issues concerning the nature and foundations of the discipline. It presents a systematic argument that the primary subject matter of logic is our linguistic interaction rather than our private reasoning and it is thus misleading to see logic as revealing "the laws of thought". In this sense, fundamental logical laws are implicit to our "language games" and are thus more similar to social norms than to the laws of nature. By carefully scrutinizing the project of logical analysis, the authors demonstrate that logical rules can be best seen as products of the so called reflective equilibrium.