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  • 10 - The Phylogeny of Deductive Reasoning

  • from Part III - Deduction and Cognition
  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Book:
    The Dialogical Roots of Deduction
    Published online:
    10 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 187-204

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the ‘phylogeny’ of deduction, i.e. how deductive reasoning may have emerged given the genetically endowed cognitive apparatus of humans. It discusses reasoning in non-human animals, Mercier and Sperber’s account of the evolution of reasoning, Heyes’ concept of cognitive gadgets, and neurological studies of deductive reasoning. It is argued that the emergence of deduction should not be viewed as genetically encoded in humans but rather as a product of cultural processes, roughly as described by the cognitive gadgets model.