Logic and the Laws of Thought

Jessica Leech

Logic and the Laws of Thought

Jessica Leech

Philosophy

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An approach to explaining the nature and source of logic and its laws with a rich historical tradition (particularly Kant and Frege) takes the laws of logic to be laws of thought. This view seems intuitively compelling, after all, logic seems to be intimately related with how we think. But how exactly should we understand it? And what arguments can we give in favour? I will propose one line of argument for the claim that the laws of logic are laws of thought. I will motivate the claim that there is a certain phenomenon, namely, that there are logical principles which are immune to rational doubt. I will then give an argument to the best explanation; I will argue that the best explanation of this phenomenon is to take the laws of logic to be constitutive-normative laws of thought. The proposal, and some responses to potential objections, will have a notably Kantian flavour.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-27
Number of pages	27
Journal	Philosophers Imprint
Volume	15
Issue number	12
Publication status	Published - Mar 2015

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