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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES VOLUME 79

Founded by Wilfrid S. Sellars and Keith Lehrer

Editor Keith Lehrer, University ofArizona, Tucson Associate Editor Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University, Tempe Board of Consulting Editors Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Radu Bogdan, Tulane University, New Orleans Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan Denise Meyerson, University of Cape Town Franois Recanati, Ecole Poly technique, Paris Stuart Silvers, Clemson University Nicholas D. Smith, Michigan State University

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

COGNITION, AGENCY AND RATIONALITY Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science Edited by

KEPAKORTA Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLl), Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain

ERNESTSOSA Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A. and

XABIER ARRAZOLA Institutefor Logic, Cognition, Language, and Information (ILCLl), Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Vll

ARE HUMANS RATIONAL?

Ernest Sosa How CAN FALLACIES ARISE ABOUT FALLACIES?

L. Jonathan Cohen

9

RETHINKING RA TIONALITY: DARWINIAN MODULES

FROM

BLEAK

IMPLICATIONS

To

Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet

21

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COUNTERF ACTUAL CONDITIONALS

Ruth MJ. Byrne, Alessandra Tasso, and Valerie Thompson

63

MEANINGS AND CONCEPTS

Stephen Schiffer

79

CONTEXTUALISM AND THE MEANING-INTENTION PROBLEM

Thomas HofWeber

93

PRESUPPOSITIONAL AND RHETORICAL EFFECTS OF Focus PARTICLES: THE CASE OF 'EVEN'

Fernando Garcia Murga

105

LOGICS FOR MENTAL STATES

Ton Sales SOCIALL Y AGENTS

RESPONSIBLE

123 DECISION

MAKING

By

AUTONOMOUS

Susanne Kalenka and Nicholas R. Jennings DIVERSITY IN RATIONALITY. A MULTI-AGENT PERSPECTIVE

Rosaria Conte THE CONTEXTS OF COLLABORA TION

135 151 175

Barbara 1. Grosz SUBJECT INDEX

189

NAME INDEX

195

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INTRODUCTION

COGNITION, AGENCY, AND RATIONALITY

The Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-97), co-organized 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 at Donostia - San Sebastian from May 7 to 10, 1997, with the following as its main topics: 1. Rationality