A Logician's Code of Conduct

The logic we rely on every day to help us communicate and make decisions can also reinforce injustice.Logic is often treated as a neutral arena for reasoning, but that supposed neutrality can fail to include everyone on fair terms.When certain ways of thinking are dismissed as incoherent reasoning, logic itself can become a tool of exclusion, supporting patterns of oppression, silencing voices, and erasing people. Drawing on lessons from feminist, queer, and post-colonial theory, A Logician’s Code of Conduct challenges us to listen more carefully to those who have been pushed to the margins of social and intellectual life - not just public voices, but people in our workplaces, communities, and families.Instead of demanding that people continually defend their deeply held beliefs, logic can be a flexible and revisable framework that adapts to multiple perspectives.Patrick Girard outlines a code of conduct to make logic more just: be transparent about assumptions, negotiate standards sui