Abstract

ALVAREZ LISBOA, Miguel  and  APABLAZA AVILA, Carlo. Asking for a Harry in his Context: An Historicist Solution to the Adoption Problem. Anal. filos. [online]. 2022, vol.42, n.1, pp.145-169.  Epub Jan 01, 2022. ISSN 1851-9636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36446/af.2022.398.

The Adoption Problem claims that certain logical laws cannot be adopted. The argument is supposed to be a challenge to Logical anti-exceptionalism, insofar as the latter must justify the stance that logical theories can be revised. The purpose of this article is to answer this challenge, using as unit of analysis the concept of Lexical Taxonomies proposed by Kuhn. As we will show, a sociologically enriched vision of scientific theories and their changes permits to account for Logical anti-exceptionalism avoiding the Adoption Problem.

Keywords : Epistemology of Logic; Logical Anti-exceptionalism; History of Logic; Scientific Revolution; Lexical Taxonomies.

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