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Cognitive semantics and scientific knowledge : case studies in the cognitive science of science /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kertész, András
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004.
Colección:Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Preliminaries
  • 1. On the cognitive turn
  • 2. Two metascientific extensions of cognitive semantics
  • Part II. Prospects: Theoretical terms
  • 3. The background
  • 4. Case study: A holistic approach to the problem of theoretical terms
  • 5. Case study: A modular appoach to the problem of theoretical terms
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Part III. Prospects: Sociological extensions
  • 7. The background
  • 8. Case study: A sociological extensionof the modular approach
  • 9. Case study: A sociological extensionof the holistic approach
  • 10. Conclusions: Prospects
  • Part IV. Limits
  • 11. The background
  • 12. Case study: The sceptical dilemma of cognitive semantics
  • 13. Two case studies: Cognitive semantics and classic philosophical problems
  • 14 Conclusions: Limits
  • 15 Summary: The solution to the main problem
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • The series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research.