Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth - Couverture souple

Azzouni, Jody

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195370694 ISBN 13 : 9780195370690

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jody Azzouni is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He also the author of Deflating Existential Consequence (OUP 2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195370694
• ISBN 13: 9780195370690
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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