Main work of 1992-94:
Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules


Main work of 1992-94:

Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, xii + 365 pages, 1995. ISBN 0-7923-3680-1


CONTENTS
PART 1.THE PSYCHOLOGY OF KNOWING
1.1.William James's Psychology of Knowing
1.2.Bertrand Russell on Knowing
1.3.J. L. Austin on How One Knows
1.4.Gilbert Ryle on Knowing
1.5.Summary on the Psychology of Knowing
PART 2.LANGUAGE, OR KNOWING AND HUMAN EXPRESSION
2.1.Rules and Regularity in Language
2.2.Rules and Regularity in Musical Composition
2.3.Language Production and Understanding
2.4.True Statements in Knowing and Action
PART 3.COMPUTING VERSUS HUMAN KNOWING
3.1.Three Notions of Proof
3.2.Proof Versus Formalization
3.3.Personal Style in Program Description and Understanding
3.4.Computer Modelling of Human Knowing Activity
PART 4.SCHOLARSHIP AND SCIENCE
4.1.The Structure of DNA:
Knowing in Biological Discovery
4.2.Why the Sun Shines:
Coherence and Models in Scientific Description
4.3.Aberration in Special Relativity:
A Case of Chronic Scientific Confusion
4.4.The Metaphysics of Constructed Models
4.5.Logic and Psychology of the Scientific Activity
4.6.Coherent Description as the Core of Scholarship and Science
REFERENCES
INDEX