Psychology and the a priori Sciences

P. Maddy
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This essay explores the role of psychology in the philosophies of logic and arithmetic. It begins by reviewing the role of developmental psychology in a second-philosophical position on logic, with some attention to whether logical structure is fully represented, then draws this moral: because logic rests on our primitive cognitive mechanisms, we tend to think it couldn’t be otherwise; this explains why we imagine logic to be necessary when it’s actually contingent (e.g., failing in the quantum world). This account extends to elementary arithmetic (2 + 2 = 4), but the potential infinite shifts support from structures present in the world to a conceptual element rooted in the language-learning device. Each of us imagines that our intuitive picture of the infinite natural number sequence is shared and that it’s coherent, unique, and determinate, but the second moral from psychology is that these convictions are less secure than we tend to think.
心理学和先验科学
本文探讨了心理学在逻辑哲学和算术哲学中的作用。它首先从第二哲学的角度回顾了发展心理学在逻辑上的作用,重点关注了逻辑结构是否被充分表征,然后得出了这样的结论:因为逻辑依赖于我们原始的认知机制,我们倾向于认为它不可能不是这样;这解释了为什么我们想象逻辑是必要的,而实际上它是偶然的(例如,在量子世界中失败)。这种解释延伸到初级算术(2 + 2 = 4),但潜在的无限将支持从世界上存在的结构转移到植根于语言学习设备的概念元素。我们每个人都认为,我们对无限自然数序列的直观印象是共享的,它是连贯的,唯一的,确定的,但心理学的第二个教训是,这些信念没有我们想象的那么可靠。
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