Séminaire général

Résumé : The standard view of deductive reasoning has it that it requires rule-following: if someone reasons deductively, they follow a general rule that guides their reasoning. This view is open to many challenges, but one worry is that if it were to be false that we follow general rules in reasoning, a kind of logical particularism would have to be true. I argue that this is not the case and sketch an account of deductive reasoning, which I call ‘Particular-First’, that is a rival to both rule-following and particularism.