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Widlok, Thomas and Stenning, Keith (2018). Seeking Common Cause between Cognitive Science and Ethnography: Alternative Logic in Cooperative Action. J. Cogn. Cult., 18 (1-2). S. 1 - 31. LEIDEN: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS. ISSN 1568-5373

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Abstract

Alternative logics have been invoked periodically to explain the systematically different modes of thought of the subjects of ethnography: one logic for 'us' and another for 'them'. Recently anthropologists have cast doubt on the tenability of such an explanation of difference. In cognitive science, [Stenning and van Lambalgen, 2008] proposed that with the modern development of multiple logics, at least several logics are required for making sense of the cognitive processes of reasoning for different purposes and in different contexts. Alongside Classical logic (CL) - the logic of dispute), there is a need for a nonmonotonic logic (LP) which is a logic of cooperative communication. Here we propose that all people with various cultural backgrounds make use of multiple logics, and that difference should be captured as variation in the social contexts that call forth the different logics' application. This contribution illustrates these ideas with reference to the ethnography of divination.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Widlok, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stenning, Keith UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-203017
DOI:	10.1163/15685373-12340027
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Cogn. Cult.
Volume:	18
Number:	1-2
Page Range:	S. 1 - 31
Date:	2018
Publisher:	BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	LEIDEN
ISSN:	1568-5373
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PROBABILITY Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20301