As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive science: philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The title - Cognition, Agency and Rationality - captures the main issues addressed by the papers. Of course, all are concerned with cognition, but some are especially centred on the very concept of rationality, while others focus on (multiple) agency. The diversity of their disciplinary origins and standpoints not only reflects the main topics and the range of different positions presented at ICCS-97, as well as demonstrating the richness, fruitfulness and diversity of research in cognitive science today.

Autorentext
Kepa Korta is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. His work has been focused on the study of dialogue, the implicit/explicit distinction, and the semantics/pragmatics interface. His research fields include the philosophy of language, semantics and pragmatics, and the philosophy of action. He has authored a number of books and papers, and recently co-authored with John Perry several works on pragmatics in Mind and Language, Synthese, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is currently director of the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI) of the University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian..

Inhalt
Are Humans Rational?.- How can Fallacies Arise about Fallacies?.- Rethinking Rationality: From Bleak Implications to Darwinian Modules.- The Psychology of Counterfactual Conditionals.- Meanings and Concepts.- Contextualism and the Meaning-Intention Problem.- Presuppositional and Rhetorical Effects of Focus Particles: The Case of 'Even'.- Logics for Mental States.- Socially Responsible Decision Making by Autonomous Agents.- Diversity in Rationality. A Multi-Agent Perspective.- The Contexts of Collaboration.- Name Index.