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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 working in any of these fields. Tracing a route backwards through the papers as presented here, the final group is largely concerned with how empirical knowledge may be acquired through evidence in states of uncertainty; the middle group explores how such evidence often requires or results in conceptual innovation and is given to us in language the meaning of which may be difficult to determine; the first group explores how a theory of meaning can be constructed for natural and artificial languages. The papers exhibit a distinctive analytical perspective and a great deal of thematic continuity, underpinned by commitment to the richness both of language and of enquiry and opposition to simplistic or dogmatic formalisations and analyses.

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Author:   L. Jonathan Cohen ,  James Logue
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Volume:   227
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9789048159550

ISBN 10:   9048159555
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   09 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Some Remarks On 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 Historical 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 Are There Ethical Reasons For Being, Or Not Being, A Scientific Realist?.

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