书名: Rationality and Logic (Bradford Books)
作者: Robert Hanna (Author)
出版社: The MIT Press (September 1, 2006)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0262083493
ISBN-13: 978-0262083492
Book Description
In Rationality and Logic, Robert Hanna argues that logic is intrinsically psychological and that human psychology is intrinsically logical. He claims that logic is cognitively constructed by rational animals (including humans) and that rational animals are essentially logical animals. In order to do so, he defends the broadly Kantian thesis that all (and only) rational animals possess an innate cognitive "logic faculty." Hanna's claims challenge the conventional philosophical wisdom that sees logic as a fully formal or "topic-neutral" science irreconcilably separate from the species- or individual-specific focus of empirical psychology.
Logic and psychology went their separate ways after attacks by Frege and Husserl on logical psychologism--the explanatory reduction of logic to empirical psychology. Hanna argues, however, that--despite the fact that logical psychologism is false--there is an essential link between logic and psychology. Rational human animals constitute the basic class of cognizers or thinkers studied by cognitive psychology; given the connection between rationality and logic that Hanna claims, it follows that the nature of logic is significantly revealed to us by cognitive psychology. Hanna's proposed "logical cognitivism" has two important consequences: the recognition by logically oriented philosophers that psychologists are their colleagues in the metadiscipline of cognitive science; and radical changes in cognitive science itself. Cognitive science, Hanna argues, is not at bottom a natural science; it is both an objective or truth-oriented science and a normative human science, as is logic itself.
Review
"Hanna suggests that we human beings are rational in the sense that we have an innate grasp of the concepts needed for appraising the cogency of our own thinking. Starting from this idea, he steers an ingenious way between psychologism and Platonism, and argues persuasively for a neo-Kantian view of the nature of logic and our engagement with it. This stimulating and wide-ranging book will be of interest to philosophers of logic and also to cognitive psychologists."
--Professor Jane Heal, University of Cambridge
About the Author
Robert Hanna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Kant and the Foundations of Analytical Philosophy.
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作者: Robert Hanna (Author)
出版社: The MIT Press (September 1, 2006)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0262083493
ISBN-13: 978-0262083492
Book Description
In Rationality and Logic, Robert Hanna argues that logic is intrinsically psychological and that human psychology is intrinsically logical. He claims that logic is cognitively constructed by rational animals (including humans) and that rational animals are essentially logical animals. In order to do so, he defends the broadly Kantian thesis that all (and only) rational animals possess an innate cognitive "logic faculty." Hanna's claims challenge the conventional philosophical wisdom that sees logic as a fully formal or "topic-neutral" science irreconcilably separate from the species- or individual-specific focus of empirical psychology.
Logic and psychology went their separate ways after attacks by Frege and Husserl on logical psychologism--the explanatory reduction of logic to empirical psychology. Hanna argues, however, that--despite the fact that logical psychologism is false--there is an essential link between logic and psychology. Rational human animals constitute the basic class of cognizers or thinkers studied by cognitive psychology; given the connection between rationality and logic that Hanna claims, it follows that the nature of logic is significantly revealed to us by cognitive psychology. Hanna's proposed "logical cognitivism" has two important consequences: the recognition by logically oriented philosophers that psychologists are their colleagues in the metadiscipline of cognitive science; and radical changes in cognitive science itself. Cognitive science, Hanna argues, is not at bottom a natural science; it is both an objective or truth-oriented science and a normative human science, as is logic itself.
Review
"Hanna suggests that we human beings are rational in the sense that we have an innate grasp of the concepts needed for appraising the cogency of our own thinking. Starting from this idea, he steers an ingenious way between psychologism and Platonism, and argues persuasively for a neo-Kantian view of the nature of logic and our engagement with it. This stimulating and wide-ranging book will be of interest to philosophers of logic and also to cognitive psychologists."
--Professor Jane Heal, University of Cambridge
About the Author
Robert Hanna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Kant and the Foundations of Analytical Philosophy.
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