on cognitive artifacts

Catarina Dutih Novaes thinks that logic can be as sophisticated in informal as in formal languages, that they have transformed human’s reasoning processes, that formal languages developed alongside mathematical notation, that the usual justifications for formal languages aren’t the whole story, that there’s a story to tell about the relationship between the historical and the evolutionary process of the development of formal language, about why writing is important to them, about human cognition being embodied, about links between medieval logic and contemporary game theory, about ‘math infatuation’, and about the problems besetting contemporary academic philosophy regarding sexual harassment.