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The Logical Foundations of Cognition John Macnamara (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, McGill University)

The Logical Foundations of Cognition By John Macnamara (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, McGill University)

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.

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The Logical Foundations of Cognition by John Macnamara (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, McGill University)

This volume, the fourth in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science published by OUP, examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments. Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory has brought the fields of cognitive psychology and logic closer together, and has shed light on how children may master proper names and count nouns, and thus acquire knowledge. The chapters highlight the inadequacies of classical logic in its handling of ordinary language and reveals the prospects of applying the new theory of kinds to cognitive psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, the philosophy of language and logic.

The Logical Foundations of Cognition Reviews

There are many ideas within these pages that deserve the further attention of philosophers of mind and language. * Canadian Philosophical Reviews *

Table of Contents

PART I: Theoretical Orientation 1: J. Macnamara and G.E. Reyes: Introduction 2: J. Macnamara: Logic and Cognition 3: 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: Logic 5: F. Magnan and G.E. Reyes: Category Theory as a Conceptual Tool in the Study of Cognition 6: M. La P. Reyes, J. Macnamara, and G.E. Reyes: Reference, Kinds and Predicates PART III: Foundational Psychology 7: J. Macnamara and G.E. Reyes: Foundational Issues in the Learning of Proper Names, Count Nouns and Mass Nouns 8: A. Peruzzi: Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds 9: D.G. Hall: How Children Learn Common Nouns and Proper Names 10: M.D.S. Braine: Mental Logic and How to Discover It PART IV: Linguistics 11: E. Bach: The Semantics of Syntactic Categories 12: F.J. Pelletier: Some Issues Involving Internal and External Semantics PART V: Intentionality 13: D. Follesdal: Husserl's Notion of Intentionality 14: M. La P. Reyes: Referential Structure of Fictional Texts 15: M. Hahn: How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction 16: P.P. Hanson: Cognitive Content and Semantics: Comment on How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction

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CIN0195092163G
9780195092165
0195092163
The Logical Foundations of Cognition by John Macnamara (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, McGill University)
Used - Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
1995-02-09
378
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