Peter K. Schotch has been Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University since 1982. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 publications in philosophical logic.Bryson Brown is the author of various articles on philosophical logic and the philosophy of science.

• Introduction ; What Rules Amount to in Practice: A Theory with a Definition ; Logical Preliminaries to a Formal Theory of Rules ; The Logic of Rules ; Who Controls the Marriage Decision? Stone and Macfarlane: Opposed Accounts ; Marx and Macfarlane: On Peasant and Capitalist Ownership in England ; Justice in hte Marxist Dialectic of Rules ; A Rules-Analysis, Following Foucault, of the Birth of Clinical Medicine ; The Opposition, Intended or Real, of the US Constitution to Factions or Political Parties ; The Abolition of the British Slave Trade ; Logic and its Application to Social Change: Our Work in Retrospect and Prospect

The technical scholarship throughout the book is impeccable, and this work deserves careful study.