BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2015/newsitem/6833/10- April-2015-Cool-Logic-Mathias-Madsen DTSTAMP:20150409T000000 SUMMARY:Cool Logic, Mathias Madsen ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Mathias Madsen DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150410T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150410T190000 LOCATION:ILLC Seminar Room (F1.15), Science Park 1 07, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:What is logic, really? Now often thoug ht of as a relatively independent branch of mathem atics, logic was in fact for large parts of its hi story seen as a kind of personal self-improvement tool used to teach oneself proper habits of ration al thought. In my presentation, I will give examp les of what this meant for the way logic books wer e written and used in early modern Europe. From th e 17th century onwards, the emerging middle classe s borrowed highly selectively from the medieval sc holastic tradition in an effort to forge a new sec ular rationality that could match their increasing ly confident class consciousness. After giving e xamples of this trend, I will follow the history o f that tradition up to the emergence of mathematic al statistics, which in the 19th century largely r eplaced logic as the marker of "Rational Man." Rec onstructing this history sheds some new light on t he surprisingly virulent disagreements in 20th cen tury statistics. For more information, see http:/ /www.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact coollogic.u va at gmail.com X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
What is logic, really? Now often thought of as a relativel y independent branch of mathematics, logic was in fact for large parts of its history seen as a kind of personal self-improvement tool used to teach o neself proper habits of rational thought.
\nIn my presentation, I will give examples o f what this meant for the way logic books were wri tten and used in early modern Europe. From the 17t h century onwards, the emerging middle classes bor rowed highly selectively from the medieval scholas tic tradition in an effort to forge a new secular rationality that could match their increasingly co nfident class consciousness.
\n\n After giving examples of this trend, I will f ollow the history of that tradition up to the emer gence of mathematical statistics, which in the 19t h century largely replaced logic as the marker of "Rational Man." Reconstructing this hist ory sheds some new light on the surprisingly virul ent disagreements in 20th century statistics.
\ n \nFor more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or conta ct coollogic.uva at gmail.com
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