Signs of logic Peircean themes on the philosophy of language, games, and communication /

• Main Author: Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Pragmatism.; Game theory.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Language.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the principal subject of this book, was one of the most profound and prolific thinkers and scientists to have come out of the United States. His pragmatic logic and scientific methodology largely represent the application of interactive and intercommunicative tria...

Table of Contents:

• Peirce
• An introduction to peirce's logic and semeiotics
• From pragmatism to the pragmatics of communication
• Peirce's game-theoretic ideas in logic
• Moving pictures of thought I
• Moving pictures of thought II
• Existence, constructivism, models, modalities
• Games
• Spiel-trieb operationalised: semantic games in logic and language
• Logic, language games and ludics
• Dialogue foundations and informal logic
• Games as formal tools versus games as explanations
• Language and Communication
• The evolution of semantics and language games for meaning
• Common ground, relevance and other notions of pragmatics: from peirce to grice and beyond
• Peirce's theory of communication and its contemporary relevance
• Games VIS-À-VIS multi-agent systems: a peircean manifesto
• Final words.