Logic as Science: the anti-excepcionalism

Abstract

Since logic establish itself as mathematical or simboic logic several logicians have stated that certain fundamental features are excepcional to logic. These features are that logic is deductive, analytic, a priori and necessary. This vision is the excepcionalist view of logic. In recent years a new vision has been developed against the exceptionalism. The aim of this paper is briefly review the anti-exceptionalist vision of logic. To do this, we will first proceed to give some definitions of the fundamental characteristics of logic as understood by contemporary logicians. Then, few anti-exceptionalist authors will be named and reviewed:  Maddy, who presents a naturalism updating Kantian logic and reforming the fundamental characteristics of logic; Hjortland who coins the term anti-exceptionalism and analyzes abductive analysis for logical theories and Read who focuses on the a priori / a posteriori distinction to make a terminological clarification of the anti-exceptionalist vision. Finally,  some general conclusions will be stated.