Deduction, Dialogue, Discourse

Catarina Dutilh Novaes’s forthcoming book is entitled The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning.  With incredible breadth and depth, it presents an eye-opening new perspective on the nature of deductive reasoning.  Its central hypothesis is that “deductive reasoning is essentially a dialogical phenomenon.”  Dutilh Novaes argues for this hypothesis by demonstrating its explanatory power not only in debates about logic and consequence, but also as a tool for understanding the history and psychology of deductive reasoning, as well as its role in mathematical practice.  The book will serve as the theme for the 2020 meeting of the Canadian Society for Epistemology.

The languages of the symposium are English and French.