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  1. Carnapian explication, formalisms as cognitive tools, and the paradox of adequate formalization.Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Erich Reck - 2017 - Synthese 194 (1):195-215.
    Explication is the conceptual cornerstone of Carnap’s approach to the methodology of scientific analysis. From a philosophical point of view, it gives rise to a number of questions that need to be addressed, but which do not seem to have been fully addressed by Carnap himself. This paper reconsiders Carnapian explication by comparing it to a different approach: the ‘formalisms as cognitive tools’ conception. The comparison allows us to discuss a number of aspects of the Carnapian methodology, as well as (...)
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    The Role of Trust in Argumentation.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2020 - Informal Logic 40 (2):205-236.
    Argumentation is important for sharing knowledge and information. Given that the receiver of an argument purportedly engages first and foremost with its content, one might expect trust to play a negligible epistemic role, as opposed to its crucial role in testimony. I argue on the contrary that trust plays a fundamental role in argumentative engagement. I present a realistic social epistemological account of argumentation inspired by social exchange theory. Here, argumentation is a form of epistemic exchange. I illustrate my argument (...)
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    Who’s Afraid of Adversariality? Conflict and Cooperation in Argumentation.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2020 - Topoi 40 (5):873-886.
    Since at least the 1980s, the role of adversariality in argumentation has been extensively discussed within different domains. Prima facie, there seem to be two extreme positions on this issue: argumentation should never be adversarial, as we should always aim for cooperative argumentative engagement; argumentation should be and in fact is always adversarial, given that adversariality is an intrinsic property of argumentation. I here defend the view that specific instances of argumentation are adversarial or cooperative to different degrees. What determines (...)
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  4. Reductio ad absurdum from a dialogical perspective.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (10):2605-2628.
    It is well known that reductio ad absurdum arguments raise a number of interesting philosophical questions. What does it mean to assert something with the precise goal of then showing it to be false, i.e. because it leads to absurd conclusions? What kind of absurdity do we obtain? Moreover, in the mathematics education literature number of studies have shown that students find it difficult to truly comprehend the idea of reductio proofs, which indicates the cognitive complexity of these constructions. In (...)
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    The enduring enigma of reason.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2018 - Mind and Language 33 (5):513-524.
    In The Enigma of Reason, Mercier and Sperber (M&S) present and defend their interactionist account of reason. In this piece, I discuss briefly the points of agreement between M&S and myself and, more extensively, the points of disagreement, most of which pertain to details of the evolutionary components of their account. I discuss in particular the purported modular nature of reason; their account of myside bias as an optimum/adaptation; and the claim that reason thus construed must be an individual‐level and (...)
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  6. Is Fake News Old News?Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Jeroen de Ridder - 2021 - In Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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    The (higher-order) evidential significance of attention and trust—comments on Levy’s Bad Beliefs.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2023 - Philosophical Psychology 36 (4):792-807.
    In Bad Beliefs, Levy presents a picture of belief-forming processes according to which, on most matters of significance, we defer to reliable sources by relying extensively on cultural and social cues. Levy conceptualizes the kind of evidence provided by socio-cultural environments as higher-order evidence. But his notion of higher-order evidence seems to differ from those available in the epistemological literature on higher-order evidence, and this calls for a reflection on how exactly social and cultural cues are/count as/provide higher-order evidence. In (...)
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  8. A Dialogical Account of Deductive Reasoning as a Case Study for how Culture Shapes Cognition.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2013 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 13 (5):459-482.
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    The relevance of salience for the epistemology of mathematics.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2023 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 107 (3):810-816.
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  10. Insolubilia and the fallacy secundum quid et simpliciter.Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Stephen Read - 2008 - Vivarium 46 (2):175-191.
    Thomas Bradwardine makes much of the fact that his solution to the insolubles is in accordance with Aristotle's diagnosis of the fallacy in the Liar paradox as that of secundum quid et simpliciter. Paul Spade, however, claims that this invocation of Aristotle by Bradwardine is purely "honorary" in order to confer specious respectability on his analysis and give it a spurious weight of authority. Our answer to Spade follows Bradwardine's response to the problem of revenge: any proposition saying of itself (...)
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    Paradoxes and structural rules from a dialogical perspective.Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Rohan French - 2018 - Philosophical Issues 28 (1):129-158.
    In recent years, substructural approaches to paradoxes have become quite popular. But whatever restrictions on structural rules we may want to enforce, it is highly desirable that such restrictions be accompanied by independent philosophical motivation, not directly related to paradoxes. Indeed, while these recent developments have shed new light on a number of issues pertaining to paradoxes, it seems that we now have even more open questions than before, in particular two very pressing ones: what (independent) motivations do we have (...)
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    Towards a Practice-based Philosophy of Logic: Formal Languages as a Case Study.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2012 - Philosophia Scientiae 16 (1):71-102.
    Au cours des dernières décennies, les travaux portant sur les pratiques humaines réelles ont pris de l'importance dans différents domaines de la philosophie, sans pour autant atteindre une position dominante. À ce jour, ce type de tournant pratique n'a cependant pas encore pénétré la philosophie de la logique. En première partie, j'esquisse ce que serait (ou pourrait être) une philosophie de la logique centrée sur l'étude des pratiques, en insistant en particulier sur sa pertinence et sur la manière de la (...)
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    Form and Matter in Later Latin Medieval Logic: The Cases of Suppositio and Consequentia.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2012 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (3):339-364.
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    Medieval theories of consequence.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2012 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:1-21.
  15. Reassessing different conceptions of argumentation.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2020 - In Alessandra Tanesini & Michael P. Lynch (eds.), Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives. London, UK: Routledge.
     
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  16. The Undergeneration of Permutation Invariance as a Criterion for Logicality.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (1):81-97.
    Permutation invariance is often presented as the correct criterion for logicality. The basic idea is that one can demarcate the realm of logic by isolating specific entities—logical notions or constants—and that permutation invariance would provide a philosophically motivated and technically sophisticated criterion for what counts as a logical notion. The thesis of permutation invariance as a criterion for logicality has received considerable attention in the literature in recent decades, and much of the debate is developed against the background of ideas (...)
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    Buridan's consequentia: consequence and inference within a token-based semantics.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2005 - History and Philosophy of Logic 26 (4):277-297.
    I examine the theory of consequentia of the medieval logician, John Buridan. Buridan advocates a strict commitment to what we now call proposition-tokens as the bearers of truth-value. The analysis of Buridan's theory shows that, within a token-based semantics, amendments to the usual notions of inference and consequence are made necessary, since pragmatic elements disrupt the semantic behaviour of propositions. In my reconstruction of Buridan's theory, I use some of the apparatus of modern two-dimensional semantics, such as two-dimensional matrices and (...)
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    Medieval Obligationes as a Theory of Discursive Commitment Management.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2011 - Vivarium 49 (1-3):240-257.
    In earlier work, I have presented an interpretation of Obligationes as logical games of consistency maintenance; this interpretation has some advantages, in particular that of capturing the multi-agent, goal-oriented, rule-governed nature of the enterprise by means of the game analogy. But it has as its main limitation the fact that it does not provide a satisfactory account of the deontic aspect of the framework—i.e. of what being obliged to a certain statement consists in. In order to remedy this shortcoming, this (...)
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    (1 other version)Dialectic and logic in Aristotle and his tradition.Matthew Duncombe & Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2016 - History and Philosophy of Logic 37 (1):1-8.
    Sweet Analytics, ‘tis thou hast ravish'd me,Bene disserere est finis logices.Is to dispute well logic's chiefest end?Affords this art no greater miracle?(Christopher Marlow, Doctor Faustus, Act 1,...
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    Lessons on sentential meaning from mediaeval solutions to the liar paradox.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2009 - Philosophical Quarterly 59 (237):682-704.
    Fourteenth-century treatises on paradoxes of the liar family, especially Bradwardine's and Buridan's, raise issues concerning the meaning of sentences, in particular about closure of sentential meaning under implication, semantic pluralism and the ontological status of 'meanings', which are still topical for current theories of meaning. I outline ways in which they tend to be overlooked, raising issues that must be addressed by any respectable theory of meaning as well as pointing in the direction of possible answers. I analyse a Bradwardinian (...)
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    An intensional interpretation of ockham's theory of supposition.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2008 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (3):pp. 365-393.
    According to a widespread view in medieval scholarship, theories of supposition are the medieval counterparts of theories of reference, and are thus essentially extensional theories. I propose an alternative interpretation: theories of supposition are theories of properties of terms, but whose aim is to allow for the interpretation of sentences. This holds especially of Ockham’s supposition theory, which is the main object of analysis in this paper. In particular, I argue for my intensional interpretation of his theory on the basis (...)
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  22. Lessons on truth from mediaeval solutions to the liar paradox.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2011 - Philosophical Quarterly 61 (242):58-78.
    Some fourteenth-century treatises on paradoxes of the liar family offer a promising starting-point for the formulation of full-fledged theories of truth with systematic relevance in their own right. In particular, Bradwardine's thesis that sentences typically say more than one thing gives rise to a quantificational approach to truth, and Buridan's theory of truth based on the notion of suppositio allows for remarkable metaphysical parsimony. Bradwardine's and Buridan's theories both have theoretical advantages, but fail to provide a satisfactory account of truth (...)
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    De paradoxen van (in)tolerantie in epistemische netwerken.Merel Talbi & Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2024 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 116 (1):55-73.
    The paradoxes of (in)tolerance in epistemic networks Does the Capitol invasion of January 2021 teach us that intolerant viewpoints have no place in public debates? This view is defensible on the basis of Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, which states that too much tolerance will ultimately entail the demise of that very tolerance. But how are the limits of (in)tolerance to be determined? We argue that Popper’s purely epistemological interpretation of the concept of tolerance is untenable; determining such limits ultimately (...)
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  24. (1 other version)Theory of supposition vs. theory of fallacies in ockham.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2007 - Vivarium 45 (s 2-3):343-359.
    I propose to examine the issue of whether the ancient tradition in logic continued to be developed in the later medieval period from the vantage point of the relations between two specific groups of theories, namely the medieval theories of supposition and the (originally) ancient theories of fallacies. More specifically, I examine whether supposition theories absorbed and replaced theories of fallacies, or whether the latter continued to exist, with respect to one particular author, William of Ockham. I compare different parts (...)
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    Roger Swyneshed’s Obligationes: A Logical Game of Inference Recognition?Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2006 - Synthese 151 (1):125 - 153.
    In [Dutilh Novaes, Medieval-obligations as logical Games of Consistency maintenance, synthese, (2004)], I proposed a reconstruction of Walter Burley’s theory of obligationes, based on the idea that Burley’s theory of obligationes could be seen as a logical game of consistency maintenance. In the present paper, I intend to test the game hypothesis on another important theory of obligationes, namely Roger Swyneshed’s theory. In his treatise on obligationes [edited by P.V. Spade, cf. Spade History and philosophy of Logic 3(1982) 1-32], Swyneshed (...)
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  26. Ralph strode's obligationes: The return of consistency and the epistemic turn.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2006 - Vivarium 44 (s 2-3):338-374.
    In what follows, I analyze Ralph Strode's treatise on obligations. I have used a hitherto unpublished edition of the text (based on 14 manuscripts) made by Prof. E.J. Ashworth. I first give a brief description of Strode's text, which is all the more necessary given that it is not available to the average reader; I also offer a reconstruction of the rules proposed by Strode, following the style of reconstruction used in my analysis of Burley's and Swyneshed's rules elsewhere—that is, (...)
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    The Cambridge companion to medieval logic.Catarina Dutilh Novaes (ed.) - 2016 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.
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    Summulae de Locis Dialecticis by Johannes Buridanus.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2014 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (3):609-610.
  29. The Adventure of Reason, by Paolo Mancosu.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2013 - Mind 122 (486):fzt034.
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  30. The historical and philosophical origins of normativism.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (5):253-254.
    Elqayam & Evans' (E&E's) critique of normativism is related to an inherently philosophical question: Is thinking a normative affair? Should thinking be held accountable towards certain norms? I present the historical and philosophical origins of the view that thinking belongs to the realm of normativity and has a tight connection with logic, stressing the pivotal role of Kant in these developments.
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  31. “He doesn't want to prove this or that”-on the very young Wittgenstein.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2010 - Philosophical Books 51 (2):102-116.
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    Logical gaps.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2017 - Forum for European Philosophy Blog.
    Catarina Dutilh Novaes on why we should dig into the cosmopolitan roots of logic.
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  33. Mathematical reasoning and external symbolic systems.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2013 - Logique Et Analyse 56 (221):45-65.
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    Ockham on Supposition Theory, Mental Language, and Angelic Communication.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2012 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (3):415-434.
    In my previous work on Ockham’s theory of supposition, I have argued that it is best understood as a theory of sentential meaning, i.e., as an apparatus for the interpretation of sentences. In this paper, I address the challenge posed to this interpretation of Ockham’s theory by the (presumed) existence of different kinds of supposition in mental language through the lenses of Ockham’s theory of angelic communication. I identify two potentially problematic implications of Ockham’s account of mental language as allowing (...)
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  35. Ockham's supposition theory as formal semantics.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2018 - In Christoph Kann, Benedikt Löewe, Christian Rode & Sara Liana Uckelman (eds.), Modern views of medieval logic. Leuven: Peeters.
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    The formal and the formalized: The cases of syllogistic and supposition theory.Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2015 - Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 56 (131):253-270.
    As a discipline, logic is arguably constituted of two main sub-projects: formal theories of argument validity on the basis of a small number of patterns, and theories of how to reduce the multiplicity of arguments in non-logical, informal contexts to the small number of patterns whose validity is systematically studied . Regrettably, we now tend to view logic 'proper' exclusively as what falls under the first sub-project, to the neglect of the second, equally important sub-project. In this paper, I discuss (...)
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  37. Johannes Buridanus: Summulae de propositionibus (review). [REVIEW]Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (1):155-156.
    Catarina Dutilh Novaes - Johannes Buridanus: Summulae de Propositionibus - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:1 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.1 155-156 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Catarina Dutilh Novaes Fordham University Ria van der Lecq, editor. Johannes Buridanus: Summulae de Propositionibus. Artistarium 10–1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. Pp. xxv + 131. Paper, €40.00. John Buridan is now believed to be among the most influential later medieval philosophers, his philosophical analyses showing considerable acumen over a (...)
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    (2 other versions)Consequences of a closed, token-based semantics: the case of John Buridan. [REVIEW]Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2004 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 10 (4):592-593.
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    Review of Albert of Saxony, Quaestiones circa logicam (twenty-five disputed questions on logic)[REVIEW]Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2011 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2):249-250.
    Albert of Saxony is now recognized as one of the most significant fourteenth-century philosophers—as evidenced, for example, by the entry dedicated to him in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Nevertheless, it is fair to say that his reputation is still somewhat overshadowed by the two giants of fourteenth-century nominalism, William of Ockham and John Buridan. Albert's work is often discussed in the context of more extensive analyses of these two authors, which might be seen as suggesting that the significance of (...)
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    Thomas Bradwardine, Insolubilia., ed., Stephen Read. Paris: Peeters, 2010. Paper. Pp. viii, 235; 1 black-and-white facsimile. €39. ISBN: 978-90-429-2317-1. [REVIEW]Catarina Dutilh Novaes - 2014 - Speculum 89 (3):747-748.