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Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
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Description for Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis
Hardcover. Examines the cognitive impact on formal languages for human reasoning, drawing on philosophy, historical development, psychology and cognitive science. Num Pages: 282 pages, 4 b/w illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: HPL; PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554. A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis. 288 pages, 4 b/w illus. 4 tables. Examines the cognitive impact on formal languages for human reasoning, drawing on philosophy, historical development, psychology and cognitive science. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPL; PBCD. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 21. Weight: 554.
Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this book, Catarina Dutilh Novaes adopts a much wider conception of formal languages so as to investigate more broadly what exactly is going on when theorists put these tools to use. She looks at the history and philosophy of formal ... Read more
Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this book, Catarina Dutilh Novaes adopts a much wider conception of formal languages so as to investigate more broadly what exactly is going on when theorists put these tools to use. She looks at the history and philosophy of formal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107020917
SKU
V9781107020917
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About Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is the author of Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories (2007).
Reviews for Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis
'Since the rise of logical empiricism, formal languages have become essential tools of doing philosophy. But why does formalization work? And what are its limitations? This book fills a crucial gap in the literature by addressing these questions from a cognitive, historical, and logical point of view. I recommend it to formal philosophers, critics of formal philosophy, and everyone with ... Read more