9781402026164 - Logic, Thought and Action (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 2, Band 2) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Logic, Thought and Action | Daniel Vanderveken | Taschenbuch | xvii | Englisch | 2005 | Springer | EAN 9781402026164 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This second volume in the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Sciencebrings a pragmatic perspective tothediscussion 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 enablespeakersto communicate theirintentions 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 processby clearly presenting and discussingthe most importanthypotheses, issues and theoriesin philosophical and logical study of language, thought and action. Among the fundamental issues discussedare 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 volumecontains major contributions by leading logicians, analytic philosophers, linguists and computer scientists. It will be of interest to graduate students andresearchersfrom philosophy, logic, linguistics, cognitivescience and artificial intelligence. There is no comparable survey in the existing literature.