Logic and psychology---some history and a future?
A number of trends in the psychology of learning and teaching point to
a need to revivify the logical basis of the theory of argument. A
split developed between formal and informal logical approaches to the
study of argument in the 50s. The issues relate to historical
shifts in the agenda of logic---from a concern about the assurance of
communication to a concern with the foundation of mathematical truth.
This talk argues that it is time to reappraise the split and to
resuscitate the traditional logical model of communication as a basis
for a theory of educational discourse, but with the benefit of modern
formal insights about distinctions between object- and meta-level
reasoning.
Keith Stenning