His PhD applied logical model theory to the data of discourse processing, and showed how the conventions of exposition (say story telling) conspire to allow the hearer to construct a unique model of the speaker’s discourse which is the basis of their subsequent inferences. He has sought to understand how formalisms such as logics can further the business of experimental analysis of human reasoning. Keith Stenning is a cognitive scientist working on human reasoning and decision. Professor Keith Stenning, University of Edinburghĭiagrams and nonmonotonic logic: what is the cognitive relation?.Professor Pietarinen’s areas of specialization include Philosophy of Logic & Language, Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism, History of Analytic & American Philosophy and the Philosophy of Mathematics. In his previous career he has worked at the Harvard University as the Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, as a visiting professor at the Kyung Hee University in Republic of Korea and as an adjunct professor at the University of Turku and at the University of Helsinki. Professor Pietarinen directs the Chair of Philosophy and currently teaches as a visiting professor at the Centre for the Study of Language and Cognition at Zheijang University in China and as a professor at the University of Helsinki. This talk aims at understanding the nature of Peirce’s graphical method and its implications to philosophy of logic. The beauty of logical graphs consists in many facets, including notational simplicity, multi-modality and normativity. Professor Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Tallinn University of Technology.

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