Review: Carlo Cellucci, Rethinking Logic: Logic in Relation to Mathematics, Evolution, and Method, Springer, Dordrecht, 2013

Rethinking Logic is not an easy book. And not because it is difficult to understand this very clearly written book. What may be difficult for many readers is accepting to be kept by the well-crafted arguments and the richly documented theses of the Author and feeling compelled by his plain prose to face the main difficulties which afflict the mainstream view of logic and epistemology. Many readers probably share such view and could feel uncomfortable in seeing it put under such an excoriating scrutiny. This is the sense in which this book may be defined as provocative. But Rethinking Logic is worth overcoming such initial possible diffidence, because of the original and stimulating insights on many of the hottest topics in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of knowledge it offers.