Situation Theory and its Applications: Volume 1 (Hardcover)

Situation Theory grew out of attempts by Jon Barwise in the late 1970s to provide a semantics for 'naked-infinitive' perceptual reports such as 'Claire saw Jon run'. Barwise's intuition was that Claire didn't just see Jon, an individual, but Jon doing something, a situation. Situations are individuals having properties and standing in relations. A theory of situations would allow us to study and compare various types of situations or situation-like entitles, such as facts, events, and scenes. One of the central themes of situation theory of meaning and reference should be set within a general theory of information, one moreover that is rich enough to do justice to perception, communication, and thought. By now many people have contributed by the need to give a rigorous mathematical account of the principles of information that underwrite the theory.

General

Imprint:	Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes, 22
Release date:	March 1991
Editors:	Robin Cooper • Kuniaki Mukai • John Perry
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	521
ISBN-13:	978-0-937073-55-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Natural language & machine translation Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN:	0-937073-55-5
Barcode:	9780937073551

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