{"product_id":"mind-code-and-context","title":"Mind, Code and Context","description":"\u003cp\u003eScholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism, all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book's treatment of pragmatics as an analytic method focuses on the central role of \u003cb\u003econtext\u003c\/b\u003e in determining the perception, organization, and communication of experience. As a bioadaptive strategy, pragmatics straddles the middle ground between absolute categories and the non-discrete gradation of experience, reflecting closely the organism's own evolutionary compromises. In parallel, pragmatic reasoning can be shown to play a pivotal role in the process of empirical science, through the selection of relevant facts, the abduction of likely hypotheses, and the construction of non-trivial explanations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this volume, Professor Givon offers pragmatics as both an analytic method and a strategic intellectual framework. He points out its relevance to our understanding of traditional problems in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuro-biology, and evolution. Finally, the application of pragmatics to the study of the mind and behavior constitutes an implicit challenge to the current tenets of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256090775896,"sku":"9780898596076","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780898596076_6015de0c-73e4-40f8-8198-513f193f9da7.jpg?v=1770170434","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mind-code-and-context","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}