Rationality and Logic -

Robert Hanna

Bradford Books

2006

341 páginas

11h 22m

ISBN-13: 9780262083492

This book is about human rationality, logic, and the connection between them. On my view, this connection is both constitutive and mutual. More precisely, I defend the broadly Kantian thesis that logic is the result of the constructive operations of an innate protological cognitive capacity that is necessarily shared by all rational human animals, and governed by categorically
normative principles. Working out and writing up this idea has involved many extended visits to the domains of logical theory and cognitive psychology. But although I am a philosopher who by virtue of a deep interest in human rationality is also deeply interested in logic and cognition, I am neither a professional logician nor a professional cognitive psychologist. So I want to make it very clear in advance that I am drawing and relying even more heavily than is usual for philosophers on the theoretical expertise of
others. I hope to make my contribution at the synoptic level of the Big Picture, and then turn this project back over to the specialists as a new and important joint research program.