Ulf Hlobil and Robert Brandom's "Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons" Book Reviews

Read book reviews of Ulf Hlobil and Robert Brandom's "Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Conceptual Roles," published by Routledge, January 2026.

Description: Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic—“logical expressivism”—according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive. This conception of logic reveals new and enlightening perspectives on inferential roles, sequent calculi, representation, truthmakers, and many extant logical theories.

The book is reviewed by John Horty in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Julian J. Schloeder in The Philosophical Review, Alexander V. Gheorghiu in The Times Literary Supplement, and Sybren Heyndels in The Philosophical Quarterly.

Ulf Hlobil is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University. He regularly teaches courses in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language.