Advanced Reasoning Forum

2nd Conference on Reasoning and Logic
New Europe College
Bucharest, Romania
July 2000

Front Matter

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Theory
Arguments and explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Richard L. Epstein

Things that aren’t there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Fred Kroon

Consciousness, materialism, and ideology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
William S. Robinson

Modals and quantifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Mircea Dumitru

The problem of unwanted epistemic necessities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Célia Teixeira

The new theory of reference: Problems and solutions concerning proper names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Sorin Costreie

Generating necessary a posteriori truths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Desiderio Murcho

Ex contradictione non sequitur quodlibet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Walter A. Carneilli and Joao Marcos

Pedagogy and Examples
Knowing the exact proportions is not enough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Stanislaw Krajewski

Discussion: On the ethics of killing dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Richard L. Epstein, William S. Robinson, Fred Kroon

Cartoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Alex Raffi

Prizes and Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Advanced Reasoning Form members and contributors to this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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