Vagueness and Rationality in Language Use and Cognition

This volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics. Vagueness in language use and cognition has tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dietz, Richard (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Language, Cognition, and Mind, 5
Subjects:
Cognitive psychology.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Psycholinguistics.
Pragmatics.
Computational linguistics.
Cognitive Psychology.
Philosophy of Language.
Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.
Computational Linguistics.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Vagueness in Rational Choice
  • Vagueness and Imprecise Credence by Anna Mahtani
  • Problems of Precision in Fuzzy Theories of Vagueness and Bayesian Epistemology by Nicholas J. J. Smith
  • Regret, Sub-optimality, and Vagueness by Chrisoula Andreou
  • Part II: Rationality in Vague Language Use and Cognition
  • The Elusive Benefits of Vagueness: The Evidence so far by Matthew James Green and Kees van Deemter
  • Towards an Ecology of Vagueness by José Pedro Correia and Michael Franke
  • The Rationality of Vagueness by Igor Douven
  • Semantic Indecision by Timoth W. Grinsell
  • Grounding a Pragmatic Theory of Vagueness on Experimental Data: Semi-orders adn Weber's Law by Arnold Kochari and Robert van Rooij. .

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