Prospects for Experimental Philosophical Logic

Abstract

This paper focuses on two interrelated issues about the prospects for research projects in experimental philosophical logic. The first issue is about the role that logic plays in such projects; the second involves the role that experimental results from the cognitive sciences play in them. I argue that some notion of logic plays a crucial role in these research projects, and, in turn, the results of these projects might inform substantive debates in the philosophy of logic.

Keywords

• Applied logic
• descriptive models
• experimental philosophical logic
• normative models
• philosophy of logic
• prescriptive models
• psychology of reasoning
• pure logic