The Dynamics of Thought

Preface. Acknowledgements. Decision theory. 1: Probabilistic reasoning and evidentiary value. 2: Unreliable probabilities, risk taking, and decision making. 3: Rights, games and social choice. Belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning. 4: The dynamics of belief systems: Foundations vs. coherence theories. 5: The role of expectations in reasoning. 6: How logic emerges from the dynamics of information. Induction. 7: Induction, conceptual spaces and AI. 8: Three levels of inductive inference. Semantics and pragmatics. 9: Frameworks for properties: Possible worlds vs. conceptual spaces. 10: The pragmatic role of modality in natural language. 11: The social stance. 12: The emergence of meaning. 13: Does semantics need reality? Evolution and cognition. 14: The nature of man - games that genes play? 15: The detachment of thought. 16: Cognitive science: From computers to anthills as models of human thought. References. Index.