Cognitive constraints on communication. Representations and processes.

VAINA, LUCIA AND JAAKKO HINTIKKA (eds.).

ISBN 10: 9027719497 / ISBN 13: 9789027719492

Verlag: Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster : D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985

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Wrappers (paperback) xviii,430,ii pp.; 23 cm. - "Synthese Language Library, 18" (library labels on spine, stamp on edges and rear title page, although good) 790g.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18467

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Cognitive constraints on communication. Representations and processes.
• Verlag: Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster : D. Reidel Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1985
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9027719497
• ISBN-13: 9789027719492
• Einband: Softcover
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Inhaltsangabe

Communication is one of the most challenging human phenomena, and the same is true of its paradigmatic verbal realization as a dialogue. Not only is communication crucial for virtually all interpersonal relations; dialogue is often seen as offering us also a paradigm for important intra-individual processes. The best known example is undoubtedly the idea of concep­ tualizing thinking as an internal dialogue, "inward dialogue carried on by the mind within itself without spoken sound", as Plato called it in the Sophist. At first, the study of communication seems to be too vaguely defmed to have much promise. It is up to us, so to speak, to decide what to say and how to say it. However, on eloser scrutiny, the process of communication is seen to be subject to various subtle constraints. They are due inter alia to the nature of the parties of the communicative act, and most importantly, to the properties of the language or other method of representation presupposed in that particuIar act of communication. It is therefore not surprising that in the study of communication as a cognitive process the critical issues revolve around the nature of the representations and the nature of the computations that create, maintain and interpret these representations. The term "repre­ sentation" as used here indicates a particular way of specifying information about a given subject.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.