Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors’ omnibus investigation of the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the practical agent’s striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense, relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal conceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression in formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and labelled deductive systems. Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief dynamics, computer science, AI, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, argumentation theory, and legal reasoning and forensic science, and will repay study by graduate students and senior undergraduates in these same fields.
Agenda Relevance A Study in Formal Pragmatics 1st Edition by Dov M Gabbay, John Woods ISBN 044451385X 9780444513854
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Author: Dov M Gabbay, John Woods
Agenda Relevance A Study in Formal Pragmatics 1st Table of contents:
Part I: Logic
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems
2.1 PLCS and Cognitive Systems
2.2 Practical Reasoning
2.3 Practical Agency
2.4 Practical Logics
2.5 Allied Disciplines
2.6 Psychologism
Chapter 3. Logic as a Description of a Logical Agent
3.1 Heuristics and Limitations
3.2 Three Problems
Chapter 4. Formal Pragmatics
4.1 Pragmatics
4.2 Theoretical Recalcitrance
4.3 Analysis
Part II: Conceptual Models for Relevance
Chapter 5. Propositional Relevance
5.1 Introductory Remark
5.2 Propositional Relevance
5.3 Legal Relevance
5.4 Topical Relevance
5.5 Topical Relevance and Computation
5.6 Targets for a Theory of Relevance
5.7 Freeman and Cohen
Chapter 6. Contextual Effects
6.1 Introductory Remarks
6.2 Contextual Effects
6.3 In The Head
6.4 Inconsistency Management
6.5 Is Inconsistency Pervasive?
6.6 Further Difficulties
6.7 Reclaiming 5W-Relevance?
6.8 The Grice Condition
Chapter 7. Agenda Relevance
7.1 Adequacy Conditions
7.2 The Basic Idea
7.3 Belief
7.4 Corroboration
7.5 Probability
7.6 Agendas: A First Pass
7.7 Cognitive Agency
7.8 Propositional Relevance Revisited
Chapter 8. Agendas
8.1 Plans
8.2 Representation
8.3 Agendas Again
8.4 MEM and KARO-agendas
8.5 A Formal Interlude
Chapter 9. Adequacy Conditions Fulfilled?
9.1 Subjective Relevance
9.2 Meta-agendas
9.3 Comparative Relevance
9.4 Hyper-relevance
9.5 Hunches
9.6 Misinformation
9.7 Dialectical Relevance
9.8 Semantic Distribution
9.9 Relevant Logic, Pittsburgh Style
9.10 Revision and Update
9.11 The Relevant Thing
Chapter 10. Objective Relevance
10.1 Normative Theories
10.2 Relevance Naturalized?
10.3 Objective Relevance
10.4 Modularity
10.5 Inference
10.6 Reconsidering Normative Relevance
10.7 Schizophrenia
10.8 Reprise
Part III: Formal Models for Relevance
Chapter 11. A Logic for Agenda Relevance — Overview
11.1 Conceptual Analysis
11.2 Formalization
11.3 Overview of the Model
11.4 How to Proceed
Chapter 12. A General Theory of Logical Systems
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Logical Systems
12.3 Examples of Logical Systems
12.4 Refining the Notion of a Logical System
Chapter 13. Labelled Deductive Systems
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Labelled Deduction
Chapter 14. Relevance Logics
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Anderson–Belnap Relevant Logic
14.3 Formulation of AB Relevance
14.4 Properties of the Goal Directed Formulation
14.5 Deductive Relevance
14.6 The Cut Rule for Deductive Relevance
Chapter 15. Formal Model of Agenda Relevance
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The Simple Agenda Model
15.3 Intermediate Agenda Model
15.4 Case Studies
Chapter 16. Conclusion
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Quantification
16.3 Some Tail Ends
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