This second volume in the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science brings a pragmatic perspective to the discussion of the unity of science.

Clearly and systematically presents and discusses major hypotheses, issues and theories advanced today in the analytic and logical study of language, thought and action

Reason, Action and Communication.- The Balance of Reason.- Desire, Deliberation and Action.- Two Basic Kinds of Cooperation.- Speech Acts and Illocutionary Logic.- Communication, Linguistic Understanding and Minimal Rationality in the Tradition of Universal Grammar.- Experience, Truth and Reality in Science.- Truth and Reference.- Empirical Versus Theoretical Existence and Truth.- Michel Ghins on the Empirical Versus the Theoretical.- Propositions, Thought and Meaning.- Propositional Identity, Truth According to Predication and Strong Implication.- Reasoning and Aspectual-Temporal Calculus.- Presupposition, Projection and Transparency in Attitude Contexts.- The Limits of a Logical Treatment of Assertion.- Agency, Dialogue and Game-Theory.- Agents and Agency in Branching Space-Times.- Attempt, Success and Action Generation: A Logical Study of Intentional Action.- Pragmatic and Semiotic Prerequisites for Predication.- On How to Be a Dialogician.- Some Games Logic Plays.- Backward Induction Without Tears?.- Reasoning and Cognition in Logic and Artificial Intelligence.- On the Usefulness of Paraconsistent Logic.- Algorithms for Relevant Logic.- Logic, Randomness and Cognition.- From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words - from Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions.