Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics, Volume 1
1st Edition
Table of Contents
Preface.
I. Logic.
Introduction
Practical Logic
2.1 PLCS and Cognitive Systems
2.2 Practical Reasoning
2.3 Practical Agency
2.4 Practical Logics
2.4.1 The Method of Intuitions
2.5 Allied Disciplines
2.6 Psychologism
2.6.1 Issues in Cognitive ScienceLogical Agents
3.1 Heuristics and Limitations
3.2 Three Problems
3.2.1 The Complexity Problem
3.2.2 The Approximation Problem
3.2.3 The Consequence Problem
3.2.4 Truth Conditions, Rules and State Conditions
3.2.5 Rules Redux
3.2.6 Logics for Down BelowFormal Pragmatics
4.1 Pragmatics
4.2 Theoretical Recalcitrance
4.3 Analysis
II. Conceptual Models for Relevance
Propositional Relevance
5.1 Introductory Remark
5.2 Propositional Relevance
5.3 Legal Relevance
5.4 Topical Relevance
5.5 Topical Relevance and Computation
5.6 Targets for a Theory of Relevance
5.7 Freeman and Cohen
5.7.1 Freeman
5.7.2 CohenContextual Effects
6.1 Introductory Remarks
6.2 Contextual Effects
6.3 In The Head
6.4 Inconsistency Management
6.4.1 Bounded Rationality
6.5 Is Inconsistency Pervasive?
6.5.1 A Case in Point: Mechanizing Cognition
6.6 Further Difficulties
6.7 Reclaiming SW-Relevance?
6.8 The Grice Condition
6.8.1 Relevance To and ForAgenda Relevance
7.1 Adequacy Conditions
7.2 The Basic Idea
7.2.1 Causality
7.3 Belief
7.4 Corroboration
7.5 Probability
7.6 Agendas: A First Pass
7.7 Cognitive Agency
7.8 Propositional Relevance RevisitedAgendas
8.1 Plans
8.2 Representation
8.3 Agendas Again
8.3.1 Agendas: Transparent and Tacit
8.4 MEM and KARO-agendas
8.4.1 MEM Agendas
8.5 A Formal InterludeAdequacy Conditions Fulfilled?
9.1 Subjective Relevance
9.2 Meta-agendas
9.3 Comparative Relevance
9.4 Hyper-relevance
9.5 Hunches
9.6 Misinformation
9.7 Dialectical Relevance
9.7.1 Fallacies of Relevance
9.8 Semantic Distribution
9.9 Relevant Logic, Pittsburgh Style
9.10 Revision and Update
9.11 The Relevant ThingObjective Relevance
10.1 Normative Theories
10.2 Relevance Naturalized?
10.2.1 Reflective Equilibrium
10.3 Objective Relevance
10.4 Modularity
10.5 Inference
10.6 Reconsidering Normative Relevance
10.7 Schizophrenia
10.8 Reprise
III. Formal Models for Relevance
A Logic for Agenda Relevance
11.1 Conceptual Analysis
11.1.1 Complexity, Approximation and Consequence
11.2 Formalization
11.3 Overview of the Model
11.4 How to Proceed
11.4.1 Bidirectional Coverage and FitA General Theory of Logical Systems
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Logical Systems
12.3 Examples of Logical Systems
12.4 Refining the Notion of a Logical System
12.4.1 Structured Consequence
12.4.2 Algorithmic Structured Consequence Relation
12.4.3 Mechanisms
12.4.4 Modes of Evaluation
12.4.5 TAR-Logics (Time, Action and Revision)Labelled Deductive Systems
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Labelled Deduction
13.2.1 Labelled Deduction Rules
13.2.2 Non-classical Use of Labels
13.2.3 The Theory of Labelled Deductive Systems
13.2.4 Hunches and Guesses
13.2.5 Contextual EffectsRelevance Logics
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Anderson--Belnap Relevant Logic
14.3 Formulation of AB Relevance
14.4 Properties of the Goal Directed Formulation
14.5 Deductive Relevance
14.6 The Cut Rule for Deductive RelevanceFormal Model of Agenda Relevance
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The Simple Agenda Model
15.3 Intermediate Agenda Model
15.4 Case StudiesConclusion
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Quantification
16.3 Some Tail Ends
Bibliography
Index
Description
Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense, relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal conceptual findings lend themselves to technically
Details
- No. of pages:
- 524
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © North Holland 2003
- Published:
- 29th May 2003
- Imprint:
- North Holland
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080526874
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780444513854
Reviews
"This is the first jewel in a new and ambitious series."
Branislav Boricic (Belgrade). Mathematical Reviews, 2004.
"...not only a ground-breaking study in the logic of practical reasoning, it is first-rate philosophy as well."
-ZENTRALBLATT MATH
Ratings and Reviews
About the Serial Editors
Dov M. Gabbay Serial Editor
Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.
Affiliations and Expertise
King's College London, UK
John Woods Serial Editor
Affiliations and Expertise
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada