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Knowledge and Language

Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen

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  1. L. Jonathan Cohen

    1. Queen’s College, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 227)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. On the Project of a Universal Character

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 1-14

  3. On a Concept of Degree of Grammaticalness

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 15-26

  4. The Semantics of Metaphor

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 27-40

  5. Can the Logic of Indirect Discourse be Formalised?

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 41-48

  6. Some Remarks on Grice’s Views about the Logical Particles of Natural Language

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 49-66

  7. Can the Conversationalist Hypothesis be Defended?

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 67-76

  8. How is Conceptual Innovation Possible?

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 77-93

  9. Should Natural-Language Definitions be Insulated from, or Interactive with, One Another in Sentence Composition?

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 95-112

  10. A Problem about Ambiguity in Truth-Theoretical Semantics

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 113-118

  11. The Individuation of Proper Names

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 119-139

  12. Third World Epistemology

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 141-153

  13. Guessing

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 155-174

  14. Bayesianism Versus Baconianism in the Evaluation of Medical Diagnoses

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 175-193

  15. Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies? Further Thoughts About the Interpretation of Experimental Data on Probability Judgment

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 195-220

  16. Inductive Logic 1945–1977

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 221-243

  17. Some Historical Remarks on the Baconian Conception of Probability

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 245-259

  18. Twelve Questions about Keynes’s Concept of Weight

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 261-278

  19. Some Steps Towards a General Theory of Relevance

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 279-292

  20. Should a Jury Say What it Believes or What it Accepts?

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 293-311
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About this book

I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and language. The Introduction to the volume has been written by James Logue, and I need to pay a very sincerely intended tribute to the care and professionalism which he has devoted to every feature of its production. My thanks are also due to Matthew MeG rattan for his technical as­ sistance in scanning the articles onto disk and formatting them. 1. Jonathan Cohen vii Publisher's Note Thanks are due to the following publishers for permission to reproduce the articles in this volume. On the project of a universal character. Oxford University Press. Paper 1 On a concept of a degree of grammaticalness. Logique et Analyse. Paper 2 Paper 3 The semantics of metaphor. Cambridge University Press. Paper 4 Can the logic of indirect discourse be formalised? The Association for Symbolic Logic. Paper 5 Some remarks on Grice's views about the logical particles of natural language. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Paper 6 Can the conversationalist hypothesis be defended? Kluwer Academic Publishers. Paper 7 How is conceptual innovation possible? Kluwer Academic Publishers. Should natural language definitions be insulated from, or interactive Paper 8 with, one another in sentence composition? Kluwer Academic Publish­ ers. Paper 9 A problem about truth-functional semantics. Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd. Paper 10 The individuation of proper names. Oxford University Press. Paper 11 Some comments on third world epistemology. Oxford University Press. Paper 12 Guessing. The Aristotelian Society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s College, Oxford, UK

    L. Jonathan Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge and Language

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen

  • Authors: L. Jonathan Cohen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2020-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0474-2Published: 31 March 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5955-0Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2020-5Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 324

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science

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