This volume examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments. Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory has brought the fields of cognitive psychology and logic closer together, and has shed light on how children master proper names and count nouns, and thus acquire knowledge. The chapters highlight the inadequacies of classical logic in its handling of ordinary language and reveal the prospects of applying these new theories to cognitive psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, the philosophy of language and logic.
Author(s): John Macnamara, Gonzalo E. Reyes
Series: Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, Vol 4
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 384
0195092155......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 14
2. Logic and Cognition......Page 22
3. Logic and Psychology: Comment on "Logic and Cognition"......Page 46
4. Tools for the Advancement of Objective Logic: Closed Categories and Toposes......Page 54
5. Category Theory as a Conceptual Tool in the Study of Cognition......Page 68
6. Reference, Kinds and Predicates......Page 102
7. Foundational Issues in the Learning of Proper Names, Count Nouns and Mass Nouns......Page 155
8. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds......Page 188
9. How Children Learn Common Nouns and Proper Names......Page 223
10. Mental Logic and How to Discover It......Page 252
11. The Semantics of Syntactic Categories......Page 275
12. Some Issues Involving Internal and External Semantics......Page 293
13. Husserl's Notion of Intentionality......Page 307
14. Referential Structure of Fictional Texts......Page 320
15. How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction......Page 336
16. Cognitive Content and Semantics: Comment on "How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction"......Page 365
