Perspectives on Contexts
Edited by Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, and Richmond H. Thomason
Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but
until very recently theories of reasoning have concentrated on very
abstract and general rules that make no reference to context. For
instance, the accounts of reasoning that are presented in logic
textbooks and that are studied by logicians provide many insights
into mathematical proof, but are difficult to apply to common sense
reasoning. The task of formulating workable, useful definitions of
context and explanations of its role in reasoning has proved to be
remarkably challenging. But a great deal of progress has been made
recently in many different disciplines. This book provides a picture
of this recent work, by leading authors belonging to all the fields
that have contributed to this renaissance in thinking about context.
Paolo Bouquet is associate professor of computer science at the University of Trento, Italy. Luciano Serafini conducts research at the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research in Trento, Italy. Richmond H. Thomason is the Nelson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.
- Introduction: Perspectives on Contexts
Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Richmond Thomason
- 1 On the dimensions of context dependence
Massimo Benerecetti, Paolo Bouquet, Chiara Ghidini
- 2 What is Local Models Semantics
Chiara Ghidini, Fausto Giunchiglia
- 3 Contextual Intensional Logic: Type-Theoretic and Dynamic Considerations
Richmond H. Thompson
- 4 The Search for the Semantic Grail
John Perry
- 5 On a Proposal of Strawson Concerning Context vs. ‘What Is Said’
Varol Akman
- 6 Epistemological foundations for the representation of discourse context
Horacio Arló Costa
- 7 Context and Logical Form
WolframHinzen
- 8 Truth-conditional pragmatics: an overview
Francois Recanati
- 9 Context and Contract
Carlo Penco
- 10 Fictional Contexts
Andrea Bonomi
- 11 Contexts and Philosophy of Sciences
R.A. Young
- Index
July 2008
ISBN (Paperback): 1575865386 (9781575865386)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575865378 (9781575865379)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575869101 (9781575869100)
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