Caros participantes da lista, É com prazer que destaco um artigo do professor e amigo Amirouche Moktefi que vai sair numa coleção em homenagem ao John Woods e cujo resumo trago aqui. (Quem quiser pode ler uma versão preliminar dele na Academia.edu).
No artigo em comento, a ideia de “Social Shaping” corresponde à de interação social, o que não é reduzir a Ciência às hipóteses sociológicas, mas tomar como ponto de partida que se trata de uma construção empreendida por um coletivo, no meio do qual alguns se sobressaem mais ou menos. The Social Shaping of Modern Logic Natural Arguments: A Tribute to John Woods, 2019By Amirouche Moktefi Traditional accounts of the history of logic seldom record the difficulties and obstacles that symbolic logic faced in its early development. We are more often offered a ‘modern success story’, to borrow an expression of George Englebretsen (1996, 53), where discoveries and innovations were accumulated by various logicians, hence leading to what is known as modern logic. This narrative makes hardly any room for the social shaping of symbolic logic as a discipline of its own. A close look shows that early symbolic logicians hardly formed a tradition or a school. They rather developed rival logical systems, theories and notations. By the end of the nineteenth century, symbolic logicians were still in minority and one can hardly say that they formed a community. Many invested symbolic logic as amateurs and outsiders who did not have the influence of the holders of the philosophy and mathematics positions with whom they fought. In the following, we will briefly expose three disputes in the early stages of symbolic logic. They illustrate the long road to recognition that the new ideas had to undertake. Each of these disputes is well-known among historians of logic and we will not engage in a thorough discussion of the issues that are debated. Our attention will rather focus on the social interaction between the opponents and how the conduct and outcome of each dispute were to some extent shaped by the disciplinary and institutional positions of the opponents. The first dispute opposed Hugh MacColl and William Stanley Jevons. It illustrates the rivalry between symbolic logicians themselves. In the second dispute, Charles L. Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll, faces the opposition of the philosopher John Cook Wilson. Finally, the third dispute sketches the well-known argument on logicism between Louis Couturat and the mathematician Henri Poincaré. Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Noam Chomsky -- Você está recebendo esta mensagem porque se inscreveu no grupo "LOGICA-L" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para logica-l+unsubscr...@dimap.ufrn.br. Para postar neste grupo, envie um e-mail para logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br. Visite este grupo em https://groups.google.com/a/dimap.ufrn.br/group/logica-l/. Para ver esta discussão na web, acesse https://groups.google.com/a/dimap.ufrn.br/d/msgid/logica-l/F9463F92-219A-481A-94DC-6855E822B643%40gmail.com.
