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Erik Stei, Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 219 pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781108494663.
Reviewed by Roy T Cook, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
In the philosophy of logic, the traditional view is monism—the idea that there is a single, univocal, everywhere-correct formal logic that captures, in some sense, logical validity in natural language. This view has been challenged by an increasing number of philosophers of logic, in an increasingly complex literature, involving innumerable variants on non-monist views. Erik Stei’s Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence challenges this trend, defending logical monism against the rising pluralist tide.
Since this review will focus to a certain extent on aspects of Stei’s account with which I disagree, it is worth beginning with an explicit bit of praise: Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence is excellent. Stei meticulously and charitably lays out extant arguments for logical pluralism, provides a novel, detailed, and extremely helpful framework…
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