The logical foundations of cognition

Authors:John Macnamara, Gonzalo E. Reyes

Summary:This volume examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments, such as Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory. Chapters reveal the prospects of applying these new theories to cognitive psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, the philosophy of language and logic.

Print Book, English, 1994

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 1994

Series:

Vancouver studies in cognitive science

Physical Description:368 p.

ISBN:

9780195092158, 9780195092165, 0195092155, 0195092163

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:644538028

Subjects:

Epistemología

Lenguaje y lógica

Referencia (Filosofía)

Semántica (Filosofía)

Contents:

PART I: Theoretical Orientation1: J. Macnamara and G.E. Reyes: Introduction2: J. Macnamara: Logic and Cognition3: H. Putnam: Logic and Psychology: Comment on "Logic and Cognition"4 Tools for the Advancement of Objective Logic: Closed Categories and Toposes: R.W. Lawvere: PART II: Logic5: F. Magnan and G.E. Reyes: Category Theory as a Conceptual Tool in the Study of Cognition6: M. La P. Reyes, J. Macnamara, and G.E. Reyes: Reference, Kinds and PredicatesPART III: Foundational Psychology7: J. Macnamara and G.E. Reyes: Foundational Issues in the Learning of Proper Names, Count Nouns and Mass Nouns8: A. Peruzzi: Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds9: D.G. Hall: How Children Learn Common Nouns and Proper Names10: M.D.S. Braine: Mental Logic and How to Discover ItPART IV: Linguistics11: E. Bach: The Semantics of Syntactic Categories12: F.J. Pelletier: Some Issues Involving Internal and External SemanticsPART V: Intentionality13: D. Follesdal: Husserl's Notion of Intentionality14: M. La P. Reyes: Referential Structure of Fictional Texts15: M. Hahn: How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction16: P.P. Hanson: Cognitive Content and Semantics: Comment on "How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction"