The Logical Alien

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The Logical Alien

Author	: Sofia Miguens
File Size	: 51,6 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 11 February 2020
ISBN	: 9780674335905
Pages	: 1081 pages

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The Logical Alien by Sofia Miguens Book PDF Summary

Is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Kant to Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question. This volume brings together nine distinguished thinkers on the subject, including James Conant, author of the seminal paper “The Search for Logically Alien Thought.”

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The Logical Alien by Sofia Miguens

“A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.” —Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking?

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