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Situating Semantics : Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry.
Title:
Situating Semantics : Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry.
Author:
O'Rourke, Michael.
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9780262280921
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (603 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Situating Semantics: An Overview of the Philosophy of John Perry -- 2 Prospects for a Naturalization of Practical Reason: Instrumentalism and the Normative Authority of Desire -- 3 Mathematical Objects and Identity -- 4 Substitution, Identity, and the Subject-Predicate Structure -- 5 Relativized Propositions -- 6 Understanding Temporal Indexicals -- 7 Is There a Problem of the Essential Indexical? -- 8 The Myth of Unarticulated Constituents -- 9 Misplaced Modification and the Illusion of Opacity -- 10 On Location -- 11 Reflections on Reference and Reflexivity -- 12 Thinking the Unthinkable: An Excursion Into Z-Land -- 13 Thinking about Qualia -- 14 A Refutation of Qualia-Physicalism -- 15 Situating Semantics: A Response -- Bibliography of John Perry's Publications -- Index.
Abstract:
Original commentary on the work of philosopher John Perry by prominent contemporary analytic philosophers, with Perry's detailed and original responses; topics include the metaphysics of identity, semantics, and philosophy of mind.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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