When ordinary people - mathematicians among them - take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. Jody Azzouni investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians. One claim of the book is that, despite our apparent intuitive grasp of consequence, we do not introspect rules by which we reason, nor do we grasp the scope and range of the domain, as it were, of our reasoning.
This point is illustrated with a close analysis of a paradigmatic case of ordinary reasoning: mathematical proof.
| ISBN: | 9780195187137 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2006 |
| Author: | Jody Azzouni |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of science Philosophy |
When ordinary people - mathematicians among them - take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. Jody Azzouni investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians.
Tracking Reason features in the following genres: Philosophy of science, Philosophy
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Tracking Reason was written by Jody Azzouni and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA
Tracking Reason has 248 pages
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