Catarina Dutilh Novaes

Formal Languages in Logic

A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the cognitive impact on formal languages for human reasoning, drawing on philosophy, historical development, psychology and cognitive science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781107460317
• ISBN-10: 110746031X
• Artikelnr.: 41609991

Autorenporträt

Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is the author of Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Two notions of formality
2. On the very notion of a formal language
3. The history, purposes and limitations of formal languages
4. How we do reason, and the need for counterbalance in science
5. Formal languages and extended cognition
6. De-semantification
7. The debiasing effect of formalization
Conclusion.