The Logical foundations of cognition / edited by John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes.

Includes bibliographical references.

Logic and cognition / John Macnamara -- Logic and psychology : comment on "Logic and cognition" / Hilary Putnam -- Tools for the advancement of objective logic : closed categories and toposes / F. William Lawvere -- Category theory as a conceptual tool in the study of cognition / François Magnan and Gonzalo E. Reyes -- Reference, kinds and predicates / Marie La Palme Reyes, John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes -- Foundational issues in the learning of proper names, count nouns and mass nouns / John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes -- Prolegomena to a theory of kinds / Alberto Peruzzi -- How children learn common nouns and proper names / D. Geoffrey Hall -- Mental logic and how to discover it / Martin D.S. Braine -- The semantics of syntactic categories / Emmon Bach -- Some issues involving internal and external semantics / Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- Husserl's notion of intentionality / Dagfinn Føllesdal -- Referential structure of fictional texts / Marie La Palme Reyes -- How not to draw the de re/de dicto distinction / Martin Hahn -- Cognitive content and semantics : comment on "How not to draw the de re/de dicto distinction / Philip P. Hanson.

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This volume examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments, such as Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory. Chapters reveal the prospects of applying these new theories to cognitive psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, the philosophy of language and logic.

English.

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