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The Dialogical Roots of Deduction
Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Professor of Philosophy and University Research Chair at VU Amsterdam, and Professorial Fellow at Arché (University of St Andrews). She is the author of Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories (2007) and Formal Languages in Logic (Cambridge, 2012), and is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic (with Stephen Read, Cambridge, 2016).
Preface; Part I. The Philosophy of Deduction: 1. The trouble with deduction; 2. Back to the roots of deduction; 3. The Prover-Skeptic dialogues; 4. Deduction as a dialogical notion; Part II. The History of Deduction: 5. Deduction in mathematics and dialectic in Ancient Greece; 6. Aristotle's syllogistic, and other ancient logical traditions; 7. Logic and deduction in the Middle Ages and the modern period; Part III. Deduction and Cognition: 8. How we reason, individually and in groups; 9. The ontogeny of deductive reasoning; 10. The phylogeny of deductive reasoning; 11. A dialogical account of proofs in mathematical practice; Conclusions.
This is the first comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction that brings together perspectives from philosophy, history, psychology and cognitive science, and mathematics. It will be of interest to a range of readers, from advanced students to senior scholars, and from philosophers to mathematicians and cognitive scientists.