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Author: Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 110847988X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction covering philosophy, history, cognition and mathematical practice.
Author: Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108846246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction is the first to bring together perspectives from philosophy, history, psychology and cognitive science, and mathematical practice. Catarina Dutilh Novaes draws on all of these perspectives to argue for an overarching conceptualization of deduction as a dialogical practice: deduction has dialogical roots, and these dialogical roots are still largely present both in theories and in practices of deduction. Dutilh Novaes' account also highlights the deeply human and in fact social nature of deduction, as embedded in actual human practices; as such, it presents a highly innovative account of deduction. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from advanced students to senior scholars, and from philosophers to mathematicians and cognitive scientists.
Author: Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107020913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the cognitive impact on formal languages for human reasoning, drawing on philosophy, historical development, psychology and cognitive science.
Author: Jules Vuillemin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-07-31
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780521305402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a learned and ingenious attempt to understand the origin and nature of philosophical inquiry. It draws on material from numerous disciplines and from all periods of philosophy and provides challenging arguments on a wide range of topics. The author constructs a hierarchy of ontological claims, beginning with perceptual experience, moving to language and science. He traces subtle and unexpected relations among these and concludes by offering a system for classifying philosophical theories which reveals why they take the form they do and why philosophical dispute is ineradicable. The book offers many fresh insights into such topics as the nature of experience, the nature of language and that of philosophy itself. It will interest a wide range of philosophers, in particular those concerned with categorical schemes, grammar and ontology.
Author: Joseph Y. Halpern
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0262035022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores actual causality, and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degree of blame, and causal explanation. The goal is to arrive at a definition of causality that matches our natural language usage and is helpful, for example, to a jury deciding a legal case, a programmer looking for the line of code that cause some software to fail, or an economist trying to determine whether austerity caused a subsequent depression.
Author: Charles Bazerman
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Published: 2009-09-16
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1643170015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
Author: Ivana Marková
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1107002559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.
Author: Denise D. Cummins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0521192048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you know what economists mean when they refer to you as a "rational agent"? Or why a psychologist might label your idea a "creative insight"? After reading this book, you will know how the best and brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.
Author: J. O. Urmson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0415078830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fully revised third edition of this Concise Encyclopedia brings it completely up-to-date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction.
Author: Marysia Johnson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0300129416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKdivdivHow does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)—a model that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability to pass a language exam) to language performance (using language competently in real-life contexts). Johnson argues that current SLA theory and research is heavily biased in the direction of the cognitive and experimental scientific tradition. She shows that most models of SLA are linear in nature and subscribe to the conduit metaphor of knowledge transfer: the speaker encodes a message, the hearer decodes the sent message. Such models establish a strict demarcation between learners’ mental and social processes. Yet the origin of second language acquisition is located not exclusively in the learner’s mind but also in a dialogical interaction conducted in a variety of sociocultural and institutional settings, says the author. Drawing on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and Bakhtin’s literary theory, she constructs an alternative framework for second language theory, research, teaching, and testing. This approach directs attention toward the investigation of dynamic and dialectical relationships between the interpersonal (social) plane and the intrapersonal (individual) plane. Johnson’s model shifts the focus of SLA away from a narrow emphasis on language competence toward a broader view that encompasses the interaction between language competence and performance. Original and controversial, A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition offers: · an introduction to Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and Bakhtin’s literary theory, both of which support an alternative framework for second language acquisition; · an examination of the existing cognitive bias in SLA theory and research; · a radically new model of second language acquisition. /DIV/DIV
