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.

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

• 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