Deduction as a dialogical device: Catarina Dutilh Novaes: The dialogical roots of deduction: historical, cognitive, and philosophical perspectives on reasoning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021, xiii + 271 pp, £75.00 HB.

Chapter 6 examines Aristotle's syllogistic logic as the first recorded systematic exposition of deductive reasoning, and examines comparable work in Asian traditions. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Dutilh Novaes lays out her methodology, characterized as I integrative i and I synthetic i , and the rest of the chapter assembles the explanatory machinery that the coming chapters employ. Over the last decade, Catarina Dutilh Novaes has established a wide-ranging and systematic research program at the intersection of philosophical logic and its history, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mathematics (see Dutilh Novaes [1], [2], [3], [4]). [Extracted from the article]