15.1524, Books: Cognitive Science: Kertesz

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Date:  Tue, 11 May 2004 11:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Kertész

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Date:  Tue, 11 May 2004 11:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Kertész

Title: Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge
Subtitle: Case studies in the cognitive science of science
Series Title: Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 4

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CELCR%204

Author: András Kertész, University of Debrecen

Hardback: ISBN: 9027238901, Pages: viii, 261 pp., Price: EURO 85.00

Abstract:

The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive
semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive
science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of
instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and
limits of the metascientific application of both holistic and modular
cognitive semantics. The case studies show that, while cognitive
semantic research is able to solve problems which have traditionally
been the domain of the philosophy of science, it also encounters
serious limits. The prospects and the limits thus revealed suggest new
research topics which in future can be tackled by cognitive semantic
approaches to the cognitive science of science.

Table of contents

Preface  xi
Introduction  1
Part I. Preliminaries
1. On the cognitive turn  13
2. Two metascientific extensions of cognitive semantics  35
Part II. Prospects: Theoretical terms
3. The background  55
4. Case study: A holistic approach to the problem of theoretical terms
   65
5. Case study: A modular approach to the problem of theoretical terms
   75
6. Conclusions  93
Part III. Prospects: Sociological extensions
7. The background  99
8. Case study: A sociological extension of the modular approach  103
9. Case study: A sociological extension of the holistic approach  123
10. Conclusions: Prospects  133
Part IV. Limits
11. The background  149
12. Case study: The sceptical dilemma of cognitive semantics  157
13. Two case studies: Cognitive semantics and classic philosophical
    problems 171
14. Conclusions: Limits  193
15. Summary: The solution to the main problem  205
16. Notes  217
17. References  239
18. Appendix  251
Index  253

Lingfield(s):	Cognitive Science

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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