Logical skills : social-historical perspectives / Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Claude Rosenthal, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brumberg-Chaumont, Julie, editor.

Rosenthal, Claude, editor.

Series:

Studies in Universal Logic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--History.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2021]

Summary:

This contributed volume explores the ways logical skills have been perceived over the course of history. The authors approach the topic from the lenses of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and history to examine two opposing perceptions of logic: the first as an innate human ability and the second as a skill that can be learned and mastered. Chapters focus on the social and political dynamics of the use of logic throughout history, utilizing case studies and critical analyses. Specific topics covered include: the rise of logical skills problems concerning medieval notions of idiocy and rationality decolonizing natural logic natural logic and the course of time Logical Skills: Social-Historical Perspectives will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of history, sociology, philosophy, and logic. Psychology and colonial studies scholars will also find this volume to be of particular interest.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Logical Skills: Social-Historical Perspectives

1.1 Exploring the Social and Political Issues Raised by Logic Throughout History

1.2 Historical Sociology and Anthropology of Logic: The Logical Skills Issue

1.3 Presentation of the Contributions: The Scales of Logic

References

Part I: "Primitives" and Civilized Men

Chapter 2: Decolonizing "Natural Logic"

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Natural Logic and Human Development

2.3 The Colonizing Implications of Natural Logic

2.4 Structuralism and Natural Logic

2.5 A Decolonial Alternative

Chapter 3: Natural Logic, Anthropological Antilogies, and Savage Thought in the Nineteenth Century

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Psychic Unity of the Living World

3.3 Rough Drafts of Humanity

3.4 The Law of Opposites

3.5 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Referring to Logical Skills to Assess the Rationality of an Ethnic Group: The Zande Case in the History of the Social Sciences

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Social Scientists' Views on Logic

4.3 Equating "Being Logical" with "Being Coherent"

4.4 Some Rather Unconstraining Formal Rules

4.5 Portraying Logic as Being Subjugated to Institutions and Circumvented by Informal Thinking

4.6 Conclusion: Do Social Scientists Refer to Logic with Great Care?

Chapter 5: "Some Stages of Logical Thought": From Native Certainties to Acquired Doubts

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Peirce: Rationality as the Fixation of Belief

5.3 Dewey's Evolutionary Account of Thinking

5.3.1 The Denial of Doubt and the Logic of Judgment

5.3.2 Thinking as a Logic of Discussion

5.3.3 Thinking as the Logic of Standardized Reasoning and Proof

5.3.4 Experimental Reason or the Inferential Logic of Discovery

5.4 Conclusion: The Pleasure of Doubting

References.

Part II: Educated and Disabled Men

Chapter 6: The Rise of Logical Skills and the Thirteenth-Century Origins of the "Logical Man"

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Logical Skills in the Thirteenth Century: The Rise of Logical Education

6.2.1 The Pervasiveness of Logical Education: The Faculty of Arts as a "Faculty of Logic"

6.2.2 The Pervasiveness of Logical Education: Mendicant Policies of Logic

6.2.3 The Logical Modality of Teaching and Graduating at University

6.3 Theories of "Logician Practices"

6.3.1 The Advent of the "Syllogistic Disputation" and the "Syllogization" of Exegesis

6.3.2 Logical Skills and "Logician Practices"

6.3.3 Theories of Logic

6.3.4 Anthropology of Logic

6.4 Social Uses of Logic

6.4.1 Usefulness, Value, Instrumentality

6.4.2 Studies, Degrees, and Skills

6.4.3 What to Do with Logic? General Culture and Pastoral Care

6.5 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Anti-dialecticians in the Middle Ages: Historiographic Myth or Reality?

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Who Are the "Anti-dialecticians"?

7.2.1 Berengar of Tours/Lanfranc of Pavia, c. 1050

7.2.2 Peter Damian/Desiderius of Montecassino, c. 1067

7.2.3 Otloh of Sankt Emmeram, c. 1075

7.2.4 Manegold of Lautenbach/Wolfhelm of Cologne, c. 1085

7.3 A Homogenous Group?

7.4 The "Anti-dialecticians" in History

7.5 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Illogical Thinking: Problems Concerning Medieval Notions of "Idiocy" and "Rationality"

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Children, Children-Like Beings and the Problem of the "Alogon" in Antiquity

8.3 Medieval Period

8.4 Intellectual Practices, Legal Practice and the Culpability of Animals

8.5 Conclusion

Chapter 9: Natural Logic and the Course of Time: From Theology to Developmental Psychology

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Man the Rational Animal, Aristotle to Avicenna.

9.3 Natural Logic, Election, and Predestination

9.4 Natural Logic as a Developmental Entity

9.5 Conclusion

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-030-58446-1

OCLC:

1247667245