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 April-2015-Cool-Logic-Mathias-Madsen
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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 https:
 //www.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact coollogic.
 uva at gmail.com
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n        <p>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.</p>\n   
      <p>In 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.</p>\n        <p>\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 
 &quot;Rational Man.&quot; Reconstructing this hist
 ory sheds some new light on the surprisingly virul
 ent disagreements in 20th century statistics.</p>\
 n    \n        <p>For more information, see <a tar
 get="_blank" href="https://www.illc.uva.nl/coollog
 ic/">https://www.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/</a> or con
 tact <a class="email">coollogic.uva <span class="a
 t">at</span> gmail.com</a></p>\n    
URL:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2015/newsitem/6833/10-
 April-2015-Cool-Logic-Mathias-Madsen
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