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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports by : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Download or read book The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports written by Katarzyna Jaszczolt and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of nine papers dealing with the topic of reporting on beliefs and other attitudes, and in particular with the issue of the semantics-pragmatics boundary dispute which is the core topic of research in the field.
Author :Wolfgang Künne Publisher :Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications ISBN 13 :9781575860718 Total Pages :320 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (67 download)
Book Synopsis Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes by : Wolfgang Künne
Download or read book Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes written by Wolfgang Künne and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a compilation of revised versions of papers presented at a conference held in spring 1994 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany.
Book Synopsis Propositional Attitudes and Indexicality by : Philippe David Schlenker
Download or read book Propositional Attitudes and Indexicality written by Philippe David Schlenker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Propositions and Attitudes by : Nathan U. Salmon
Download or read book Propositions and Attitudes written by Nathan U. Salmon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings investigates many different philosophical issues concerning the nature of propositions and the ways they have been regarded through the years. The book includes articles by Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, Alonzo Church, David Kaplan, John Perry, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Mark Richard, Scott Soames, and Nathan Salmon.
Book Synopsis Attitudes and Changing Contexts by : Robert van Rooij
Download or read book Attitudes and Changing Contexts written by Robert van Rooij and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author defends a unified externalists account of propositional attitudes and reference, and formalizes this view within possible world semantics. He establishes a link between philosophical analyses of intentionality and reference, and formal semantic theories of discourse representation and context change. The relation between belief change and the semantic analyses of conditional sentences and evidential (knowledge) and buletic (desire) propositional attitudes is discussed extensively.
Book Synopsis Propositional Content by : Peter Hanks
Download or read book Propositional Content written by Peter Hanks and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place,explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
Book Synopsis Context and the Attitudes by : Mark Richard
Download or read book Context and the Attitudes written by Mark Richard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard develop a nuanced account of semantics and propositional attitudes. The collection addresses a range of topics in philosophical semantics and philosophy of mind, and is accompanied by a new Introduction which discusses attitudes realized by dispositions and other non-linguistic cognitive structures.
Book Synopsis Reflecting the Mind:Indexicality and Quasi-Indexicality by : Eros Corazza
Download or read book Reflecting the Mind:Indexicality and Quasi-Indexicality written by Eros Corazza and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros Corazza presents a fascinating investigation of the role that indexicals (e.g. 'I', 'she', 'this', 'today', 'here') play in our thought. Indexicality is crucial to the understanding of such puzzling issues as the nature of the self, the nature of perception, social interaction, psychological pathologies, and psychological development. Corazza draws on work from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to illuminate this key aspect of the relation between mind and world.By highlighting how indexical thoughts are irreducible and intrinsically perspectival, Corazza shows how we can depict someone else's indexical thought from a third-person perspective. The phenomenon of quasi-indexicality is introduced here: to represent Jane saying, "I am prosperous", we use what Castañeda termed a quasi-indicator in a report of the form "Jane said that she (herself) is prosperous". Corazza argues that quasi-indicators play such an importantrole in our linguistic, social, and psychological life that they have a cognitive primacy over other mechanisms of reference. Quasi-indexicality also emerges as a key notion when we come to consider our ability to understand other minds. Corazza argues that indexicality and quasi-indexicality are two sides of the same coin, bestunderstood within the framework of direct reference.
Book Synopsis How Reference Works by : Lawrence D. Roberts
Download or read book How Reference Works written by Lawrence D. Roberts and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-08-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Waves in Philosophy of Language by : S. Sawyer
Download or read book New Waves in Philosophy of Language written by S. Sawyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth
Book Synopsis Propositions, Proper Names, and Indexicals by : Matthew Lee Davidson
Download or read book Propositions, Proper Names, and Indexicals written by Matthew Lee Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Propositional Attitudes, Reference and Pragmatics by : Eduardo Villanueva
Download or read book Propositional Attitudes, Reference and Pragmatics written by Eduardo Villanueva and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Measure of Mind by : Robert J. Matthews
Download or read book The Measure of Mind written by Robert J. Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Measure of Mind' provides a sustained critique of a widely held view of beliefs, desires, and other 'propositional attitudes', according to which they are representations that play a causal role in the production of thought and behaviour.
Book Synopsis Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference by : Wayne A. Davis
Download or read book Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference written by Wayne A. Davis and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference extends Wayne Davis's groundbreaking work on the foundations of semantics. Davis revives the classical doctrine that meaning consists in the expression of ideas, and advances the expression theory by showing how it can account for standard proper names, and the distinctive way their meaning determines their reference. He also shows how the theory can handle interjections, syncategorematic terms, conventional implicatures, and other cases long seen as difficult for both ideational and referential theories. The expression theory is founded on the fact that thoughts are event types with a constituent structure, and that thinking is a fundamental propositional attitude, distinct from belief and desire. Thought parts ('ideas' or 'concepts') are distinguished from both sensory images and conceptions. Word meaning is defined recursively: sentences and other complex expressions mean what they do in virtue of what thought parts their component words express and what thought structure the linguistic structure expresses; and unstructured words mean what they do in living languages in virtue of evolving conventions to use them to express ideas. The difficulties of descriptivism show that the ideas expressed by names are atomic or basic. The reference of a name is the extension of the idea it expresses, which is determined not by causal relations, but by its identity or content together with the nature of objects in the world. Hence a name's reference is dependent on, but not identical to, its meaning. A name is directly and rigidly referential because the extension of the idea it expresses is not determined by the extensions of component ideas. The expression theory thus has the strength of Fregeanism without its descriptivist bias, and of Millianism without its referentialist or causalist shortcomings. The referential properties of ideas can be set out recursively by providing a generative theory of ideas, assigning extensions to atomic ideas, and formulating rules whereby the semantic value of a complex idea is determined by the semantic values of its components. Davis also shows how referential properties can be treated using situation semantics and possible worlds semantics. The key is to drop the assumption that the values of intension functions are the referents of the words whose meaning they represent, and to abandon the necessity of identity for logical modalities. Many other pillars of contemporary philosophical semantics, such as the twin earth arguments, are shown to be unfounded.
Book Synopsis The Referential Structure of Propositional Attitudes by : Jack Andrew Cumbee
Download or read book The Referential Structure of Propositional Attitudes written by Jack Andrew Cumbee and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Against a Theory of Direct Reference by : Kathryn Jane Schubert
Download or read book Against a Theory of Direct Reference written by Kathryn Jane Schubert and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information by : Heimir Geirsson
Download or read book Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information written by Heimir Geirsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names have been the focal point of philosophy of language for the last few decades. The advocates of the causal reference theory have favored the view that the semantic contents of proper names are their referents. However, Frege's puzzle about the different cognitive value of coreferential names has made this identification seem impossible. Geirsson provides a detailed overview of the debate to date, and then develops a novel account that explains our reluctance, even when we know about the relevant identity, to substitute coreferential names in both simple sentences and belief contexts while nevertheless accepting the view that the semantic content of names is their referents. The account focuses on subjects organizing information in webs; a name can then access and elicit information from a given web. Geirsson proceeds to extend the account of information to non-referring names, but they have long provided a serious challenge to the causal reference theorist.
