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  1. On the Ternary Relation and Conditionality.Jc Beall, Ross T. Brady, J. Michael Dunn, A. P. Hazen, Edwin D. Mares, Robert K. Meyer, Graham Priest, Greg Restall, David Ripley, John Slaney & Richard Sylvan - 2012 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 41 (3):595 - 612.
    One of the most dominant approaches to semantics for relevant (and many paraconsistent) logics is the Routley-Meyer semantics involving a ternary relation on points. To some (many?), this ternary relation has seemed like a technical trick devoid of an intuitively appealing philosophical story that connects it up with conditionality in general. In this paper, we respond to this worry by providing three different philosophical accounts of the ternary relation that correspond to three conceptions of conditionality. We close by briefly discussing (...)
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    Metaphysics and Morality: Essays in Honour of J. J. C. Smart.John Jamieson Carswell Smart, Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan & Jean Norman (eds.) - 1987 - New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
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  3. 11 Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic?Richard Routley Sylvan - forthcoming - Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions.
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    Simplified semantics for basic relevant logics.Graham Priest & Richard Sylvan - 1992 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 21 (2):217 - 232.
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    Beyond the universal Turing machine.B. Jack Copeland & Richard Sylvan - 1999 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1):46-66.
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    Relevant logics and their rivals.Richard Sylvan & Ross Brady (eds.) - 1982 - Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Pub. Co..
    Relevant Logics and their Rivals, Volume II extends the material of the first volume in two ways.
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    Transcendental metaphysics: from radical to deep plurallism [sic].Richard Sylvan - 1997 - Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press.
    Richard Sylvan died suddenly at the age of 60, when he had just completed this major text. But though this volume is the mature expression of one of our foremost modern philosophers, it remains, like all his work, pioneering, eclectic and controversial. Sylvan's theory of 'plurallism', the culmination of his life's work, is the subject of this important text. In his own characteristically provocative words, 'There is not merely a plurality of correct theories and more or less satisfactory worldviews: there (...)
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    Variations on da Costa C systems and dual-intuitionistic logics I. analyses of cω and CCω.Richard Sylvan - 1990 - Studia Logica 49 (1):47-65.
    Da Costa's C systems are surveyed and motivated, and significant failings of the systems are indicated. Variations are then made on these systems in an attempt to surmount their defects and limitations. The main system to emerge from this effort, system CC , is investigated in some detail, and dual-intuitionistic semantical analyses are developed for it and surrounding systems. These semantics are then adapted for the original C systems, first in a rather unilluminating relational fashion, subsequently in a more illuminating (...)
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  9. The Greening of Ethics.Richard Sylvan & David Bennett - 1996 - Environmental Values 5 (3):273-274.
     
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    Paraconsistent Logic: Essays on the Inconsistent.L. R. S., Graham Priest, Richard Sylvan & Jean Norman - 1991 - Philosophical Quarterly 41 (165):515.
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    Variations on Da Costa C Systems and Dual-Intuitionistic Logics I. Analyses of $C{\omega}$ and $CC{\omega}$.Richard Sylvan - 1990 - Studia Logica 49 (1):47 - 65.
    Da Costa's C systems are surveyed and motivated, and significant failings of the systems are indicated. Variations are then made on these systems in an attempt to surmount their defects and limitations. The main system to emerge from this effort, system $CC_{\omega}$ , is investigated in some detail, and "dual-intuitionistic" semantical analyses are developed for it and surrounding systems. These semantics are then adapted for the original C systems, first in a rather unilluminating relational fashion, subsequently in a more illuminating (...)
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  12. Relevant Logics and Their Rivals, Volume II.Richard Sylvan & Ross Brady - 2005 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 11 (1):70-72.
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    Exploring Meinong's jungle and beyond: an investigation of noneism and the theory of items.Richard Sylvan - 1980 - Canberra: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
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    (1 other version)A Critique of Deep Ecology.Richard Sylvan - 1985 - Radical Philosophy 40:2.
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    Negation And Contradiction.Richard Routley Val Routley, Richard Sylvan & Richard Routley - 1985 - Revista Columbiana de Mathematicas 19:201 - 231.
    The problems of the meaning and function of negation are disentangled from ontological issues with which they have been long entangled. The question of the function of negation is the crucial issue separating relevant and paraconsistent logics from classical theories. The function is illuminated by considering the inferential role of contradictions, contradiction being parasitic on negation. Three basic modelings emerge: a cancellation model, which leads towards connexivism, an explosion model, appropriate to classical and intuitionistic theories, and a constraint model, which (...)
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    Anarchism.Richard Sylvan - 1996 - In Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 255–284.
    Most of the seminal and interesting work on anarchism has come from outside universities and standard intellectual circles. Academics have contributed histories, surveys and (usually not‐so‐sympathetic) criticisms. With a very few exceptions, however, they have contributed little original anarchist thought.
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    On interpreting truth tables and relevant truth table logic.Richard Sylvan - 1992 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33 (2):207-215.
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    Prospects for regional philosophies in australasia.Richard Sylvan - 1985 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (2):188 – 204.
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    Sociative Logics and Their Applications: Essays.Richard Sylvan - 2000 - Ashgate Publishing.
    Richard Sylvan died in 1996, he had made contributions to many areas of philosophy, such as, relevant and paraconsistent logic, Meinongianism and metaphysics and environmental ethics. One of his trademarks was the taking up of unpopular views and defending them. To Richard Sylvan ideas were important, wether they were his or not. This is a book of ideas, based on a collection of work found after his death, a chance for readers to see his vision of his projects.
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    A generous Jainist interpretation of core relevant logics.Richard Sylvan - 1987 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 16 (2):58-66.
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    Process and action: Relevant theory and logics.Richard Sylvan - 1992 - Studia Logica 51 (3-4):379 - 437.
    Whileprocess andaction are fundamental notions, in ubiquitous use, they lack satisfactory logical treatment in two critical respects: in analyses of the fundamentals themselves and in logical development. For what treatment they have so far received, under classical systematisation, leaves significant lacunae and induces much paradox. A relevant logical relocation, carried through in detail here, removes such problems, and provides solid ground-work for a satisfactory treatment.Firstly, as to fundamentals: processes should be explicated, so it is argued, as certain sorts of (time) (...)
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  22. Significant moments in the development of Australian logic: in critical appreciation of Leonard Goddard's major contribution.Richard Sylvan - 1992 - Logique Et Analyse 35 (138):5-44.
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    Environmental Philosophy.Don S. Mannison, Michael A. McRobbie & Richard Sylvan (eds.) - 1980 - Dept. Of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
  24. Contradiction, Assertion and 'Frege's Point'.Graham Priest & Richard Sylvan - 1989 - Analysis 49 (1):23 - 26.
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    Meinong und die Gegenstandstheorie.Richard Sylvan - 1995 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 50 (1):47-85.
    Re-explored are certain item-theory theses, major problem zones, and newer puzzles and, together therewith, prospects for liberalizing and pluralizing item-theory. Undoubtedly item-theory may be further liberalized, partly by further dissociation from object-theory and the restrictions object imposes, but primarily through substantial deregulation of the styles of characterisations permitted. Then almost anything goes; nonetheless what results is a sufficiently well-organised smooth-running sistological anarchism. Characterisation is dispersed through a federation of regions: only in old central city regions do the characterisation postulates of (...)
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  26. Human Chauvinism and Environmental Ethics'.Richard Sylvan & Val Plumwood - 1980 - In Don S. Mannison, Michael A. McRobbie & Richard Sylvan (eds.), Environmental Philosophy. Dept. Of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. pp. 96--189.
     
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  27. Relevance and reasoning.Leonard Goddard & Richard Sylvan - 1995 - Dialogue and Universalism 5 (5-6):37.
     
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    Paraconsistent Logic: Essays on the Inconsistent.Graham Priest, Richard Sylvan, Jean Norman & A. I. Arruda (eds.) - 1989 - Munich and Hamden, CT: Philosophia.
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    Roles and Limits of Paradigms in Environmental Thought and Action.Richard Sylvan - 1982 - Philosophy Department, Australian National University.
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    Answering another alleged dilemma destroying dialetheism.Richard Sylvan & Graham Priest - 1988 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 17 (1):42-48.
    To leave matters in no doubt, we obligingly assert that the Russell class R, i.e. {x : x 6∈ x}, both belongs to itself and also does not belong to itself; in short, we assert R ∈ R & ∼ . To be quite explicit, we assert the contradiction r & ∼ r, where r abbreviates R ∈ R. Thus, in convenient symbols, `δ r & ∼ r, where δ is the group of dialethicians comprising Priest and Routley. Now Goldstein (...)
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  31. Australia's Defence Philosophy: Further Investigations of the non-existent.Richard Sylvan - 1986 - Critical Philosophy 3 (1/2):160.
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  32. A Relevant Invalidity In Curry's Foundations.Richard Sylvan - 1987 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 16 (1):51-53.
    Curry claims that the positive paradox principle, ` A ⊃ in his elementary statement presentation, ‘is valid in any normal interpretation’ . By previous definition, ‘an interpretation of a system S is a normal interpretation just when the proposition A is true when and only when ` A’ . But his argument to normal validity is interestingly, and relevantly, invalid.
     
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  33. Bibliography of works on philosophy and nuclear war.Richard Sylvan - 1986 - Critical Philosophy 3 (1/2):204.
     
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    Cause as an implication.Richard Sylvan & Newton Costa - 1988 - Studia Logica 47 (4):413 - 428.
    An appropriately unprejudiced logical investigation of causation as a type of implication relation is undertaken. The implication delineated is bounded syntactically. The developing argument then leads to a very natural process analysis, which demonstrably captures the established syntactical features. Next relevantly-based semantics for the resulting logical theory are adduced, and requisite adequacy results delivered. At the end of the tour, further improvements are pointed out, and the attractive terrain beyond present developments is glimpsed.
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    Cause as an implication.Richard Sylvan & Newton da Costa - 1988 - Studia Logica 47 (4):413-428.
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    Do Moral Matters Matter-Environmentally?Richard Sylvan - 1987 - Between the Species 3 (4):4.
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  37. (1 other version)dedicated to the memory of Charles Hamblin.Richard Sylvan - 1985 - Philosophica 35 (1):89-112.
     
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  38. Grim Tales Retold: How to Maintain Ordinary Discourse about—and Despite—Logically Embarrassing Notions and Totalities.Richard Sylvan - 1992 - Logique Et Analyse 35:349-374.
     
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    Intuitionist logic — subsystem of, extension of, or rival to, classical logic?Richard Sylvan - 1988 - Philosophical Studies 53 (1):147 - 151.
    Strictly speaking, intuitionistic logic is not a modal logic. There are, after all, no modal operators in the language. It is a subsystem of classical logic, not [like modal logic] an extension of it. But... (thus Fitting, p. 437, trying to justify inclusion of a large chapter on intuitionist logic in a book that is largely about modal logics).
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  40. Language, Thought and Representation of the World in Nouvelles tendances du réalisme: la perspective australienne.Richard Sylvan - 1987 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 41 (160):64-96.
     
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  41. Language, Thought and Representation of "The" World.Richard Sylvan - 1987 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 41 (1):64.
     
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    Nihilisms, and Nihilist Logics.Richard Sylvan - 1983 - Dept. Of Philosophy, Australian National Library.
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    On Making a Coherence Theory of Truth True.Richard Sylvan - 1990 - Philosophica 46.
  44. On the Value Core of Deep-Green Theory.Richard Sylvan - 1992 - In . Oxford University Press.
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    Paraconsistent classical logic.Richard Sylvan & Igor Urbas - 1993 - Logique Et Analyse 141 (142):3-24.
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  46. Sociative Logics and Their Applications: Essays.Richard Sylvan, D. Hyde & G. Priest - 2003 - Philosophical Quarterly 53 (210):137-141.
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    The importance of nonexistent objects and of intensionality in mathematics.Richard Sylvan - 2003 - Philosophia Mathematica 11 (1):20-52.
    In this article, extracted from his book Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond, Sylvan argues that, contrary to widespread opinion, mathematics is not an extensional discipline and cannot be extensionalized without considerable damage. He argues that some of the insights of Meinong's theory of objects, and its modern development, item theory, should be applied to mathematics and that mathematical objects and structures should be treated as mind-independent, non-existent objects.
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    Universal Purpose, Terrestial Greenhouse and Biological Evolution.Richard Sylvan - 1990
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