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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
SPRINGER-SCLENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.Y.
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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
