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benjamins.com>Title: Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge Subtitle: Case studies in the cognitive science of science Series Title: Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 4 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CELCR%204 Author: Andr�s Kert�sz, University of Debrecen Hardback: ISBN: 9027238901, Pages: viii, 261 pp., Price: EURO 85.00 Abstract: 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 application of both holistic and modular cognitive semantics. The case studies show that, while cognitive semantic research is able to solve problems which have traditionally been the domain of the philosophy of science, it also encounters serious limits. The prospects and the limits thus revealed suggest new research topics which in future can be tackled by cognitive semantic approaches to the cognitive science of science. Table of contents Preface xi Introduction 1 Part I. Preliminaries 1. On the cognitive turn 13 2. Two metascientific extensions of cognitive semantics 35 Part II. Prospects: Theoretical terms 3. The background 55 4. Case study: A holistic approach to the problem of theoretical terms 65 5. Case study: A modular approach to the problem of theoretical terms 75 6. Conclusions 93 Part III. Prospects: Sociological extensions 7. The background 99 8. Case study: A sociological extension of the modular approach 103 9. Case study: A sociological extension of the holistic approach 123 10. Conclusions: Prospects 133 Part IV. Limits 11. The background 149 12. Case study: The sceptical dilemma of cognitive semantics 157 13. Two case studies: Cognitive semantics and classic philosophical problems 171 14. Conclusions: Limits 193 15. Summary: The solution to the main problem 205 16. Notes 217 17. References 239 18. Appendix 251 Index 253 Lingfield(s): Cognitive Science Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=10193.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue