Discourse, Interaction and Communication: Proceedings of the Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) / Edition 1

by X. Arrazola, K. Korta, Francis Jeffrey Pelletier

Overview

DISCOURSE, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION Co-organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Infonnation (ILCLI) both from the University of the Basque Country, tlle Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) gathered at Donostia - San Sebastian ti'om May 3 to 6, 1995, with the following as its main topics: 1. Social Action and Cooperation. 2. Cognitive Approaches in Discourse Processing: Grammatical and Semantical Aspects. 3. Models of Infonnation in Communication Systems. 4. Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits. More tllan one hundred researchers from all over the world exchanged their most recent contributions to Cognitive Science in an exceptionally fruitful annosphere. In this volume we include a small though representative sample of tlle main papers. They all were invited papers except the one by Peter Juel Henrichsen, a contributed paper tllat merited tlle IBERDROLA - Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia: Best Paper Award, set up in ICCS-95 for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792349525
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Series:	Philosophical Studies Series , #72
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Does the Sentence Exist? Do We Need It?.- Contextual Domains.- Thinking of ‘Not’.- The Metaphorical Conception of Events and Causes: Some Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy.- Formal Semantics, Geometry, and Mind.- Informational Semantics and Epistemic Arrogance.- Collective Goals and Cooperation.- A Logical Approach to Reasoning about Uncertainty: A Tutorial.- How Commitment Leads to Coordination: The Effect of Individual Reasoning Strategies on Multi-Agent Interaction.- Building a Collaborative Interface Agent.- Name Index.

Editorial Reviews

Presents a small but representative sample of the main papers considered at the May 1995 colloquium, which focused on four themes: social action and cooperation, cognitive approaches in discourse processing, models of information in communication systems, and the scope and limits of cognitive simulation. Papers range from the extremely abstract to the extremely specific. Among the topics: contextual domains; formal semantics, geometry, and mind; collective goals and cooperation; a logical approach to reasoning about uncertainty; and building a collaborative interface agent. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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