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    Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics
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    Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics

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    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
    label led 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.



    Key features:



    • relevance
    • action and agendas
    • practical reasoning
    • belief dynamics
    • non-classical logics
    • labelled deductive systems


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateMay 29, 2003
    ISBN9780080526874
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