Cognitive Constraints on Communication

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Dialogue and Cognition.- Diplomatic Communication.- Insight and Self-Observation: Their Role in the Analysis of the Etiology of Illness.- Parental Communication Deviance and Schizophrenia: A Cognitive-Developmental Analysis.- Contributions of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere in Perceiving Paralinguistic Cues of Emotion.- Towards a Computational Theory of Semantic Memory.- Two Types of Discourse in Hölderlin’s Madness.- Problems in Question Answering.- Looking for a Process Model of Dialogue: Speculations from the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence.- Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious.- A Logical Form Based on the Structural Descriptions of Events.- Linguistic and Situational Context in a Model of Task-Oriented Dialogue.- Some Ways of Representing Dialogues.- Towards a Logical Model of Dialogue.- Message Theory and the Semantics of Dialogue.- Rules, Utilities, and Strategies in Dialogical Games.- Focus and Dialogue Games: A Game-Theoretical Approach to the Interpretation of Intonational Focusing.- Intensional Man vs Extensional Man: A Difficult Dialogue.- Dynamic Model Selection in the Interpretation of Discourse.- Modelling the Dialogue by means of Formal Language Theory.- Precisiation of Meaning via Translation into PRUF.- Conversations between Programs.- Index of Names.