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		Welcome to the Homepage of the
		Research Group Communicative Understanding
		at the University of Leipzig!
General Information The Projects and their Members Current and Future Activities Activities up to now Project Description Project 1: Reconstructing Speech Act Theory Project 2: Pragmatic Implications Project 3: Speech Act and Interpretation Project 4: Explanatory Coherence Project 5: Computational Dialectics Guests Papers		Communication is important for a lot of things and a certain amount is even necessary for survival. Without communication we don't understand the world, and not even ourselves. Everybody knows this. We do too. But  we aren't satisfied with that. We are curious. We want to know more. For example as philosophers: When we know that communication is important, what do we know? What is communication anyway? As philosophers of language: In what way is communication connected with language? Does communication presuppose language? Or is language first of all the result of successful communication? As epistemologists: how does our knowledge of what gets communicated come about? What influence do logical and practical inferences have? As information scientists: how can forms of communication be modelled on the computer? What can we learn from investigations of communicative behavior about the development of computer systems? And finally also as human beings: whenever we communicate again - on what should we pay more attention as before? To all answers given so far on these questions, a lot is still not clear to us.  And we are convinced that with regard to numerous questions, new ways will lead to better answers.  Every one of us, according to his own discipline, has his special problems understanding communicative understanding. But there are also problems that we all have. And we believe that every one of us can answer his own questions more efficiently if we work together. For this reason we have established a research group. Description of the project The project is settled at: Center for Higher Studies (ZHS) at the University of Leipzig Institute for Philosophy at the University of Leipzig Institute for Logic and Theory of Sciences at the University of Leipzig Institute for Computer Sciences at the University of Leipzig The project Kunst-Kommunikation sponsered by the Saxionian Ministry for Science and Art is associated with our project.
The URL of this site is: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~fkv/ Last updated 24/10/2000 Please mail comments and hints to: Frank Kannetzky		Top | Sitemap | In Deutsch