Modern logic is undergoing a cognitive turn, side-stepping Frege's 'antipsychologism'. Collaborations between logicians and colleagues in more empirical fields are growing, especially in research on reasoning and information update by intelligent agents. We place this border-crossing research in the context of long-standing contacts between logic and empirical facts, since pure normativity has never been a plausible stance. We also discuss what the fall of Frege's Wall means for a new agenda of logic as a theory of rational agency, and what might then be a viable understanding of 'psychologism' as a friend rather than an enemy of logical theory. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Van Benthem, J. (2008). Logic and reasoning: Do the facts matter? Studia Logica, 88(1), 67–84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-008-9101-1
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