Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth - Brossura

Azzouni, Jody

 
9780195370690: Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth

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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.

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

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9780195187137: Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence, and Truth

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ISBN 10:  019518713X ISBN 13:  9780195187137
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2006
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