Themes from Kaplan.
Title:
Themes from Kaplan.
Author:
Almog, Joseph.
ISBN:
9780195345346
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (625 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Part I -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Content, Character, and Nondescriptive Meaning -- 3 Time and Thisness -- 4 Logic and the World -- 5 Russellian Intensional Logic -- 6 Direct Reference, the Semantics of Thinking, and Guise Theory (Constructive Reflections on David Kaplan's Theory of Indexical Reference) -- 7 Why Singular Propositions? -- 8 Intensionality and the Paradox of the Name Relation -- 9 On Direct Reference -- 10 The Problem of De Re Modality -- 11 Meaning and Explanation -- 12 Perceptual Content -- 13 Tense and Singular Propositions -- 14 Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes -- 15 Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content -- 16 Singular Propositions, Abstract Constituents, and Propositional Attitudes -- Part II -- 17 Demonstratives An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals -- 18 Afterthoughts.
Abstract:
Containing sixteen essays by such distinguished contributors as Robert M. Adams, Nathan Salmon, and Scott Soames, this book discusses and expands upon the work of David Kaplan and provides essential new perspectives on the philosophy of language. It includes Kaplan's hitherto unpublished paper, "Demonstratives.".
Local Note:
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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