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Mind, Code and Context - Essays in Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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Mind, Code and Context - Essays in Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Series: Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics Series
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Scholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched
through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to
the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has
been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back
from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism,
all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics. This
book's treatment of pragmatics as an analytic method focuses on the
central role of context in determining the perception,
organization, and communication of experience. As a bioadaptive
strategy, pragmatics straddles the middle ground between absolute
categories and the non-discrete gradation of experience, reflecting
closely the organism's own evolutionary compromises. In parallel,
pragmatic reasoning can be shown to play a pivotal role in the
process of empirical science, through the selection of relevant
facts, the abduction of likely hypotheses, and the construction of
non-trivial explanations. In this volume, Professor Givon offers
pragmatics as both an analytic method and a strategic intellectual
framework. He points out its relevance to our understanding of
traditional problems in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics,
cognitive psychology, neuro-biology, and evolution. Finally, the
application of pragmatics to the study of the mind and behavior
constitutes an implicit challenge to the current tenets of
artificial intelligence.
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