Knowledge and Language : Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen / by L. Jonathan Cohen.
This collection of twenty papers deals with a wide range of issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, history of philosophy, philosophy of psychology, jurisprudence and philosophy of science. It should be of interest to, and prove a stimulus for new work by, researchers and practitioners worki...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands,
2002.
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 227. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface. Introduction
- 1. On the Project of a Universal Character
- 2. On a Concept of Degree of Grammaticalness
- 3. The Semantics of Metaphor
- 4. Can the Logic of Indirect Discourse be Formalised?- 5. Grice's Views About the Logical Particles of Natural Language
- 6. Can the Conversationalist Hypothesis be Defended?- 7. How is Conceptual Innovation Possible?- 8. Natural Language Definitions
- 9. A Problem About Ambiguity in Truth-Theoretical Semantics
- 10. The Individuation of Proper Names
- 11. Third World Epistemology
- 12. Guessing
- 13. Bayesianism versus Baconianism in the Evaluation of Medical Diagnoses
- 14. Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies?- 15. Inductive Logic 1945-1977
- 16. Some Remarks on the Baconian Conception of Probability
- 17. Twelve Questions about Keynes's Concept of Weight
- 18. Some Steps towards a General Theory of Relevance
- 19. Should a Jury Say What it Believes or what it Accepts?- 20. Ethical Reasons for Being, or not Being, a Scientific Realist.