Logic, Thought and Action [Paperback]

Contributing Authors. 1. Introduction; Daniel Vanderveken.Part I: Reason, Action and Communication. 2. The Balance of Reason; Marcelo Dascal. 3. Desire, Deliberation and Action; John R. Searle. 4. Two Basic Kinds of Cooperation; Raimo Tuomela. 5. Speech Acts and Illocutionary Logic; John R. Searle and Daniel Vanderveken. 6. Communication, Linguistic Understanding and Minimal Rationality in Universal Grammar; Andr? Leclerc.Part II: Experience, Truth and Reality in Science. 7. Truth and Reference; Henri Lauener. 8. Empirical Versus Theoretical Existence and Truth; Michel Ghins. 9. Michel Ghins on the Empirical Versus the Theoretical; Bas C. van Fraassen.Part III: Propositions, Thought and Meaning. 10. Propositional Identity, Truth According to Predication and Strong Implication; Daniel Vanderveken. 11. Reasoning and Aspectual-Temporal Calculus; Jean-Pierre Descl?s. 12. Presupposition, Projection and Transparency in Attitude Contexts; Rob van der Sandt. 13. The Limits of a Logical Treatment of Assertion; Denis Vernant. Part IV: Agency, Dialogue and Game-Theory. 14. Agents and Agency in Branching Space-Times; Nuel Belnap. 15. Attempt, Success and Action Generation: a Logical Study of Intentional Action; Daniel Vanderveken. 16. Pragmatic and Semiotic Prerequisites for Predication; Kuno Lorenz. 17. On how to be a Dialogician; Shahid Rahman and Laurent Keiff. 18. Some Games Logic Plays; Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen. 19. Backward Induction Without Tears? Jordan Howard Sobel.Part V: Reasoning and Cognition in Logic and Artificial Intelligence. 20. On the Usefulness of Paraconsistent Logic; Newton C.A. da Costa, Jean- Yves B?ziau, and Ot?vio Bueno. 21. Algorithms for Relevant Logic; PaulGochet, Pascal Gribomont and Didier Rossetto. 22. Logic, Randomness and Cognition; Michel de Rougemont. 23. From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words - From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions; Lofti Zadeh.

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