Logical Skills: Social-Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030584450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 172 str.

Claude Rosental; Julie Brumberg-Chaumont

Recenzje

"History remains important within postcolonial STS. The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader (Harding, 2011), for example has numerous contributions by historians ... . Logical skills shows that, to better understand the shared insights of postcolonial STS and STS itself, the sociological study of history is a fruitful approach." (Maria Amuchastegui, Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 35 (3), 2022)

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I. “Primitives” and Civilized Men

Chapter 2. Decolonizing “Natural Logic”

Chapter 3. Natural Logic, Anthropological Antilogies, and Savage Thought in the 19th Century

Chapter 4. Referring to Logical Skills to Assess the Rationality of an Ethnic Group: The Zande Case in the History of the Social Sciences

Chapter 5. “Some Stages of Logical Thought”: From Native Certainties to Acquired Doubts

Part II. Educated and Disabled Men

Chapter 6. The Rise of Logical Skills and the 13th Century Origins of the “Logical Man”

Chapter 7. Anti-dialecticians in the Middle Ages: Historiographic Myth or Reality?

Chapter 8. Illogical Thinking: Problems Concerning Medieval Notions of “Idiocy” and “Rationality”

Chapter 9. Natural Logic and the Course of Time: From Theology to Developmental Psychology

Index

O autorze

Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Research Professor - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (PSL/CNRS)

Claude Rosental, Research Professor - Sociology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Blurb

This contributed volume explores the ways logical skills have been perceived over the course of history. The authors approach the topic from the lenses of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and history to examine two opposing perceptions of logic: the first as an innate human ability and the second as a skill that can be learned and mastered. Chapters focus on the social and political dynamics of the use of logic throughout history, utilizing case studies and critical analyses.

Specific topics covered include:

• the rise of logical skills
• problems concerning medieval notions of idiocy and rationality
• decolonizing natural logic
• natural logic and the course of time

Logical Skills: Social-Historical Perspectives will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of history, sociology, philosophy, and logic. Psychology and colonial studies scholars will also find this volume to be of particular interest.