Truth, Rationality, Cognition, and Music

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Cognitive Science and David Hume’s Science of the Mind

   • John Biro

   Pages 1-20

3. Truth and Meaning

   • Scott Soames

   Pages 21-44

4. Truth and Borderline Cases

   • Timothy Williamson

   Pages 45-66

5. Meaning Finitism and Truth

   • Martin Kusch

   Pages 67-83

6. Subjective Experience and External World

   • Manuel Liz

   Pages 85-108

7. The Explanatory Relevance of Psychological Properties

   • Marcelo Sabatés

   Pages 109-131

8. Epistemology and Cognitive Theorizing

   • Jesús Ezquerro, Fernando Martínez-Manrique

   Pages 133-156

9. Music, Language and Cognition: Which Doesn’t Belong?

   • Peter Kivy

   Pages 157-174

10. Music and Knowledge

    • Laird Addis

    Pages 175-190

11. Event Coreference and Discourse Relations

    • Laurence Danlos, Bertrand Gaiffe

    Pages 191-209

12. Rationality in Context

    • J. Francisco Morales

    Pages 211-221

13. Individual and Collective Rationality in a Social Framework

    • Luis A. Pérez Miranda

    Pages 223-241

14. Back Matter

    Pages 243-253

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A speech for the defence in a Paris murder trial, a road-safety slogan, Hobbes' political theory; each appeals to reason of a kind, but it remains an oblique and rhetoricalldnd. Each relies on comparisons rather than on direct statements, and none can override or supersede the conclusions of ethical reasoning proper. Nevertheless, just as slogans may do more for road safety than the mere recital of accident statistics, or of the evidence given at coroners' inquests, so the arguments of a Hobbes or a Bentham may be of greater practical effect than the assertion of genuinely ethical or political statements, however true and relevant these may be. Stephen Toulmin, Reason in Ethics, 1950. The International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS), held in Donostia - San Sebastian every two years since 1989, has become one of the most important plazas for cognitive scientists in Europe to present the results of their research and to exchange ideas. The seventh edition, co-organized as usual by the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLI) and the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, both from the University of the Basque Country, took place from May 9 to 12, 200 1, addressing the following main topics: 1. Truth: Epistemology and Logic. 2. Rationality in a Social Setting. 3. Music, Language, and Cognition. Vlll TRUTH, RATIONALITY, COGNITION, AND MUSIC 4. The Order of Discourse: Logic, Pragmatics, and Rhetoric.

• cognition
• cognitive science
• epistemology
• knowledge
• truth
• truth and meaning

• Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information, The University of the Basque Country, Spain

  Kepa Korta, Jesus M. Larrazabal

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