Abstract

This chapter steps back and provides a general overview. It begins by discussing how each of the classic conventionalist slogans (about truth in virtue of meaning, analyticity, tautologies, and more) fares in light of my conventionalist theory. Then the chapter discuses Carnap’s _Logical Syntax_-era theory of logic and mathematics in detail, before turning to Giannoni’s less well-known account in _Conventionalism in Logic_. Finally, the chapter briefly considers how it is that the rejection of conventionalism has turned into a new dogma, not just of empiricism, but of contemporary philosophy as a whole.