The Logical Foundations of Cognition [Paperback]

This important book presents seminal contributions to the emerging synthesis of logic and cognitive psychology. Logicians, who typically concern themselves with ideal reasoning processes, have rarely crossed paths with cognitive psychologists and their more empirical endeavors. With the introduction of a landmark semantic theory by Gonzalo E. Reyes, however, the fields have somewhat reconciled and together have been fruitful in shedding new light on several issues--for example, on how children may master proper names and count nouns, and thus acquire knowledge. Authored by an outstanding collection of leading theorists and researchers across disciplines, this book details the inadequacies of classical logic in its handling of ordinary language and reveals the prospects for applying a symbiosis of logic and psychology to cognitive psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, the philosophy of language, and logic itself. Both scholarly and engaging,The Logical Foundations of Cognitionwill be of interest to psychologists, philosophers, linguists, and computer scientists alike.

PART I: Theoretical Orientation
1. Introduction,J. Macnamara and G.E. Reyes
2. Logic and Cognition,J. Macnamara
3. Logic and Psychology: Comment on Logic and Cognition ,H. Putnam
4 Tools for the Advancement of Objective Logic: Closed Categories and Toposes.R.W. Lawvere
PART II: Logic
5. Category Theory as a Conceptual Tool in the Study of Cognition,F. Magnan and G.E. Reyes
6. Reference, Kinds and Predicates,M. La P. Reyes, J. Macnamara, and G.E. Reyes
PART III: Foundational Psychology
7. Foundational Issues in the Learning of Proper Names, Count Nouns and Mass Nouns,J. Macnamara and G.E. Reyes
8. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds,A. Peruzzi
9. How Children Learn Common Nouns and Proper Names,D.G. Hall
10. Mental LoglË