Abstract

According to anti-exceptionalism about logic (AEL), logic is not as exceptional in terms of its subject matter and epistemology as has been traditionally thought. In this chapter, we focus our attention on epistemological AEL, the view that logics are justified on the basis of similar mechanisms of theory-choice and sources of evidence as theories in the sciences. In particular, we consider the motivations for rejecting a particularly important traditional property of logic—the foundational status of its laws—based upon empiricist commitments, the nature of logical facts, and logical practice, and then outline those non-foundationalist accounts of logic’s epistemology that result from these motivations, including Quine’s evidential holism, logical abductivism, and logical predictivism.