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Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context but, until recently, theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. Perspectives on Contexts brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge a vigorous interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon. Applicable to human and machine cognition in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and psychology, this volume is essential to the current renaissance in thinking about context.

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Paolo Bouquet is associate professor of computer science at the University of Trento, Italy. Luciano Serafini works at the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research, Trento, Italy. Richmond H. Thomason is the Nelson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.

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