Background Reading
The following is a list of
papers relevant to the main interests of the group.
These papers may include authors from outside this
group. Many of the papers have been presented at our
seminar by some member of the group.
- Social Software,Synthese 132, 2002,
pages 187-211, Rohit Parikh
Introduces the concept of social software through
some nice examples. Many examples are discussed, of
particular interest is the two horseman example as
described in the introduction of this survey. Parikh
goes on to suggest that we can use some techniques
for reasoning about programs when reasoning about
social procedures.
- Lanuage as Social Software in Future
Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century
Philosophy, Chapter 15, pgs. 339 - 350, eds J. Floyd
and S. Shieh, 2002, Rohit Parikh
Applies some ideas from computer science to analyzing
language. In particular, draws an analogy between the
denotational semantics of a high-level programming
language versous the operational semantics of machine
language; and the meaning theory for a natural
language versus the actual linguistic and
non-linguistic behaviours of a speech comunity.
