Is logic all in our heads? From naturalism to psychologism

DOI10.1007/S11225-008-9098-5MaRDI QIDQ934825zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Renée Elio, Philip Hanson, Francis Jeffry Pelletier

Publication date 30 July 2008

Published in Studia Logica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-008-9098-5

zbMATH Keywords

artificial intelligencecognitive scienceFregeHusserlMillnaturalismpsychologismQuine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic in artificial intelligence (68T27)

Review text

Arguments in favor and against psychologism in logic are here the object of a critical analysis. Conceptual and historical aspects of psychologism and of logic are discussed in a broad philosophical perspective. The analysis of psychological individualism includes Descartes, Locke, Kant and Mill. Classic objections to psychologism include Frege and Husserl. Further discussions are concerned with pure psychological individualism in logic and an evaluation of the criticisms against it; psychologism as psychologial descriptivism; teleology and cognitive architectures; ideal cognizers and logic that is psychologistic.

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