thehumanities.com » 2009 » April » 06 http://thehumanities.com An international CONFERENCE, a scholarly JOURNAL, a BOOK series, and an online KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:37:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is Logic Universal? http://thehumanities.com/2009/04/06/is-logic-universal/ http://thehumanities.com/2009/04/06/is-logic-universal/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:04:48 +0000 homer http://thehumanities.mu.commongroundpublishing.com/?p=1410 The journal Logica Universalis has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue dedicated to the question “Is logic universal?”

Included in the Call is this:

Many questions are connected to this issue:
1. Do all human beings have the same capacity for reasoning?
Do people of different gender, ethnic, cultural and linguistics backgrounds
reason in the same way?
2. Does reasoning evolve?
Did human beings  reason in the same way two centuries ago?
In the future will human beings reason in the same way?
Did computers change our way to reason?
Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture ?
3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation?
Do we use the same logic for everyday life, physics, economy?
4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasonings?
5. Is there any absolute true ways of reasoning ?

Any contribution dedicated to one aspects of the question "Is logic
universal?" is welcome.
Submit your paper to
universal.logic@ufc.br
before  August 31st 2009
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