Pragmatics of Veridicity

International audienceWe use here the analytical tools of contemporary logic and pragmatics to propose a study of veridicity , seen as the set of all attitudes expressed by a speaker about the truthfulness of what he/she is saying. Combining the logical operators that bear on propositional content (affirmation and negation) with the pragmatic operations (asserting, considering, denying, estiming), we construct an axiomatic system (as alternative interpretation of hexagon of opposition) with its syntactical and semantical presentations. Such a system provides a formal structure !formal that holds not only for veridictional speech acts, but also for the belief attitudes associated with them

Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition

2e édition (première en 2011)International audienceThe theory of intuitive and abstractive cognition was developed by John Duns Scotus in the late thirteenth century, and it dominated the discussion about cognition from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. The theory was changed and debated by the major philosophers of the time including William of Ockham, Peter Auriol, Gregory of Rimini and Peter of Ailly