Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Majer, Ondrej (Editor), Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko (Editor), Tulenheimo, Tero (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science ; 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Mathematical logic.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Game theory.; Semantics.; Philosophy of Language.; Applications of Mathematics.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.

OndrejMajer,Ahti-VeikkoPietarinen,andTeroTulenheimo 1 Games and logic in philosophy Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the unifying methodo- gies over what have been perceived as pretty disparate logical ‘systems’, or else merely an assortment of formal and mathematical ‘approaches’ t...

Table of Contents:

• Philosophical Issues
• Why Play Logical Games?
• On The Narrow Epistemology of Game-Theoretic Agents
• Interpretation, Coordination and Conformity
• Fallacies as Cognitive Virtues
• Game-Theoretic Semantics
• A Strategic Perspective on if Games
• Towards Evaluation Games for Fuzzy Logics
• Games, Quantification and Discourse Structure
• Dialogues
• From Games to Dialogues and Back
• Revisiting Giles's Game
• Implicit Versus Explicit Knowledge in Dialogical Logic
• Computation and Mathematics
• In the Beginning was Game Semantics?
• The Problem of Determinacy of Infinite Games from an Intuitionistic Point of View.