Overview
- Clearly and systematically presents and discusses major hypotheses, issues and theories advanced today in the analytic and logical study of language, thought and action
- Contains major contributions by leading logicians, analytic philosophers, linguists and computer scientists that are of interest and accessible to graduate students and scholars
- Contains an extented bibliography
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 2)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Experience, Truth and Reality in Science
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About this book
This second volume in the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science brings a pragmatic perspective to the discussion of the unity of science.
Contemporary philosophy and cognitive science increasingly acknowledge the systematic interrelation of language, thought and action. The principal function of language is to enable speakers to communicate their intentions to others, to respond flexibly in a social context and to act cooperatively in the world. This book will contribute to our understanding of this dynamic process by clearly presenting and discussing the most important hypotheses, issues and theories in philosophical and logical study of language, thought and action. Among the fundamental issues discussed are the rationality and freedom of agents, theoretical and practical reasoning, individual and collective attitudes and actions, the nature of cooperation and communication, the construction and conditions of adequacy of scientific theories, propositional contents and their truth conditions, illocutionary force, time, aspect and presupposition in meaning, speech acts within dialogue, the dialogical approach to logic and the structure of dialogues and other language games, as well as formal methods needed in logic or artificial intelligence to account for choice, paradoxes, uncertainty and imprecision.
This volume contains major contributions by leading logicians, analytic philosophers, linguists and computer scientists. It will be of interest to graduate students and researchers from philosophy, logic, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. There is no comparable survey in the existing literature.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Logic, Thought and Action
Editors: Daniel Vanderveken
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3167-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2616-4Published: 14 February 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3167-0Published: 23 June 2005
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 544
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Logic, Linguistics, general, Philosophy, general, Computer Science, general, Mathematics, general