Weaving Self-Evidence : : A Sociology of Logic /

Weaving Self-Evidence : : A Sociology of Logic / / Claude Rosental.

The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist Claude Rosental challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known recent example in the fiel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Rosental, Claude,
MitwirkendeR:
Porter, Catherine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: ACCESSING THE WORLD OF PRODUCERS OF LOGICAL STATEM
  • CHAPTER 1. HOW CAN WE GRASP WHAT LOGIC-MAKERS DO? QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS
  • CHAPTER 2. SPACES AND TOOLS FOR EXCHANGE
  • PART TWO: PRACTICES OF DE-MONSTRATION: DEBATING A THEOREM IN AN ELECTRONIC FORUM
  • CHAPTER 3. BRINGING TO LIGHT: DEMONSTRATION PUT TO THE TEST OF ANTAGONISTIC LOGICAL PRACTICES
  • CHAPTER 4. EVALUATING THE CORRECTNESS OF A THEOREM AND THE PROPERTIES OF A LOGIC AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN SEVERAL DE-MONSTRATIVE MODES
  • PART THREE: MEDIATIONS USED TO ADVANCE A LOGICAL THEOREM
  • CHAPTER 5. MEDIATIONS USED TO ADVANCE. A LOGICAL THEOREM
  • CHAPTER 6. FEDERATING A COUNTER-DE-MONSTRATION OR PRODUCING HAND-TAILORED RESPONSES
  • CHAPTER 7. THE EMERGENCE OF A QUASI-OBJECT AND A COLLECTIVE STATEMENT
  • CONCLUSION. A SOCIOLOGY OF THE PRACTICES OF DE-MONSTRATION
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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