Jonathan Lear

John U Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy Jonathan Lear

Alex Oliver

University Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy Cambridge University and Fellow Alex Oliver

Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In this volume, an international roster of contributors discuss Smiley's work to date; their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrum—in philosophy of language, philosophical logic and mathematical logic.

Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley

The Force of Argument

Timothy John Smiley

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a new account of plural logic. They argue that there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation in logic, and expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists.

Plural Logic

Are the sins of the fathers really visited upon the sons? And is there no way of breaking that cycle? Is evil doomed always to repeat itself, ruining everything good through its tainted seed?These are not the questions young Oswy is asking himself when he is sold to the witch-Lord Sulien FitzGuimar

Alex Oliver

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