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Barriers to Entailment is a book about the limits of logic and their philosophical implications. Gillian Russell shows how, in each of five domains--universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity--- certain kinds of argument are logically unavailable.

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Barriers to Entailment is a book about the limits of logic and their philosophical implications. Gillian Russell shows how, in each of five domains--universality, time, necessity, context-sensitivity, and normativity--- certain kinds of argument are logically unavailable.
Autorenporträt
Since gaining her PhD in philosophy at Princeton University in 2004, Gillian Russell has been a postdoc at the University of Alberta, Assistant and Associate Professor at Washington University in St Louis, Professor and Alumni Distinguished Professor at the UNC Chapel Hill, and a Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She has recently moved to Australia, where she works for the Dianoia Research Institute in Analytic Philosophy at Australia Catholic University in Melbourne. Her work focuses on the philosophy of language and logic, and her previous books include Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/synthetic Distinction .