Alternative Logics: a book review: SIGACT news logic column 18

  • Authors:
  • Riccardo Pucella

  • Affiliations:
  • Northeastern University, Boston, MA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A few years ago, Bill Gasarch, editor of the Book Review Column, sent me a copy of the book Alternative Logics: Do Sciences Need Them? [28], edited by Paul Weingartner, and asked if I was interested in reviewing it. The book is a collection of essays discussing whether there is a need for logics other than classical logic in various areas of science. Interestingly, I had just finished reading a copy of philosopher Susan Haack's Deviant Logic [13], concerning the philosophical foundation of alternative logics. This was fortuitous, because Haack's monograph provided a wonderful introduction to the essays collected in Weingartner's volume.