Discourse, Interaction and Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Does the Sentence Exist? Do We Need It?

   • P. J. Henrichsen

   Pages 1-24

3. Contextual Domains

   • F. Recanati

   Pages 25-36

4. Thinking of ‘Not’

   • F. J. Pelletier

   Pages 37-47

5. The Metaphorical Conception of Events and Causes: Some Implications of Cognitive Science for Philosophy

   • G. Lakoff

   Pages 49-83

6. Formal Semantics, Geometry, and Mind

   • J. E. Fenstad

   Pages 85-103

7. Informational Semantics and Epistemic Arrogance

   • S. Silvers

   Pages 105-120

8. Collective Goals and Cooperation

   • R. Tuomela

   Pages 121-139

9. A Logical Approach to Reasoning about Uncertainty: A Tutorial

   • J. Y. Halpern

   Pages 141-155

10. How Commitment Leads to Coordination: The Effect of Individual Reasoning Strategies on Multi-Agent Interaction

    • M. E. Pollack

    Pages 157-163

11. Building a Collaborative Interface Agent

    • C. L. Sidner

    Pages 165-177

12. Back Matter

    Pages 179-191

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DISCOURSE, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION Co-organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Infonnation (ILCLI) both from the University of the Basque Country, tlle Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) gathered at Donostia - San Sebastian ti'om May 3 to 6, 1995, with the following as its main topics: 1. Social Action and Cooperation. 2. Cognitive Approaches in Discourse Processing: Grammatical and Semantical Aspects. 3. Models of Infonnation in Communication Systems. 4. Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits. More tllan one hundred researchers from all over the world exchanged their most recent contributions to Cognitive Science in an exceptionally fruitful annosphere. In this volume we include a small though representative sample of tlle main papers. They all were invited papers except the one by Peter Juel Henrichsen, a contributed paper tllat merited tlle IBERDROLA - Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia: Best Paper Award, set up in ICCS-95 for the first time.

• Action
• Cognitive science
• artificial intelligence
• communication
• intelligence
• linguistics
• logic
• philosophy
• semantics
• uncertainty

• ILCLI, San Sebastián, Spain

  Xabier Arrazola, Kepa Korta

• University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Francis Jeffry Pelletier

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