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* Chapter 7 (from section 7.4) "Critiques of Logic" in Laurence Goldstein, Andrew Brennan, Max Deutsch, Joe Lau (2005) ''Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy'' Continuum International Publishing Group. [[http://books.google.com/books?id=nGx_qBH1DD8C&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0|google books preview]]
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* Chapter 7 (from section 7.4) "Critiques of Logic" in Laurence Goldstein, Andrew Brennan, Max Deutsch, Joe Lau (2005) ''Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy'' Continuum International Publishing Group. [[http://books.google.com/books?id=nGx_qBH1DD8C&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0|google books preview]] intranet:feminist-logic.pdf
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media/irigaray.jpg Irigaray: science must always be expressed in the language of formal logic, but formal logic is biased because it fails to include concepts close to feminist concerns, such as ‘reciprocity’, ‘exchange’, ‘permeability’ and ‘fluidity’.
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media:irigaray.jpg Irigaray: science must always be expressed in the language of formal logic, but formal logic is biased because it fails to include concepts close to feminist concerns, such as ‘reciprocity’, ‘exchange’, ‘permeability’ and ‘fluidity’.
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Nye: Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy that they do not know how to fulfill, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.
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Plumwood (1993) ''Feminism and the Mastery of Nature'' Routledge.
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http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-7389599_ITM
Olson, Hope A. (2007) "How we construct subjects: a feminist analysis" ''Library Trends''.
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* A critique of logic proper - identify problems associated with specific principles or laws of logic.
* Internal critique of logic is not uncommon. Logicians and philosophers criticize the laws of classical logic, e.g. law of bivalence. P v ~P.
* Law of identity: For every X, X = X.
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* Law of identity: For every X, X = X.
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# "Theory X leaves out Y" does not entail "Theory X is opposed to Y" or "Theory X assumes that Y is not important".
# Logic is topic-neutral.
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# "Theory X leaves out Y" does not entail "Theory X is opposed to Y" or "Theory X assumes that Y is not important", or "Theory X is biased against Y".
# A key feature of logic is that it is topic-neutral. Logic would not be general enough if it is essentially tied to concepts of a particular discipline.
# Logical systems allow topic-specific terms to be explicitly introduced into the language of a formal system.
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# The validity of an argument is independent of context, but logic does not exclude arguments ''about'' context.
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!Logic is abstract and formal and opposed to concrete content
Cope-Kasten : fascination with formalism can sometimes ‘prevent a check on aggressive impulses by isolating the agent from experiencing the victim as a real flesh-and-blood person.’
Pam Oliver: logic leads to over-simplification by ignoring the complexities and pragmatic considerations of human activities. Whereas ‘logical deduction is orderly, tidy, clean’, it results in ‘simplistic decisions which can be disastrous in their consequences’
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# Formal logic is not supposed to solve all social and political problems.
# Formal logic as yet cannot deal with the full complexities of natural language. But it is not the fault of logic when people over-simplify things or misuse logic.
# The possibility of character defects arising from obsession with logic does not imply that the laws of logic should be rejected.
# Logic is important in dealing with complex decisions and real problems, e.g. helping us identify hidden assumptions and fallacies.
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!Logic is abstract and formal and opposed to concrete content
Cope-Kasten : fascination with formalism can sometimes ‘prevent a check on aggressive impulses by isolating the agent from experiencing the victim as a real flesh-and-blood person.’
Pam Oliver: logic leads to over-simplification by ignoring the complexities and pragmatic considerations of human activities. Whereas ‘logical deduction is orderly, tidy, clean’, it results in ‘simplistic decisions which can be disastrous in their consequences’
Reply:
# Formal logic is not supposed to solve all social and political problems.
# The possibility of character defects arising from obsession with logic does not imply that the laws of logic should be rejected.
# Logic is important in dealing with complex decisions and real problems.
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