Semantic Relationism

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Av Kit Fine, Fine

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Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language. A major contribution to the philosophy of language, now available in paperbackWritten by one of today’s most respected philosophersArgues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thoughtProposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselvesForms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today’s leading philosophers

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Utgivningsdatum2009-07-29
Mått152 x 231 x 13 mm
Vikt254 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
Antal sidor160
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405196697

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Kit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, and specializes in metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. He is the author of Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985), The Limits of Abstraction (2002) and Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (2005) and the co-author of Worlds, Times and Selves (1977). He has also written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory, in addition to the papers in his central fields of interest.

Introduction 1. Coordination among VariablesA. The DesiderataB. The ProblemC. The Contextualist ResponseD. The Dismissive ResponseE. The Instantial ApproachF. The Algebraic ApproachG. Relational Semantics for First-order Logic2. Coordination within LanguageA. Frege’s PuzzleB. Rejecting CompositionalityC. Semantic FactD. ClosureE. Referentialism ReconsideredF. A Relational Semantics for NamesG. Transparency3. Coordination within ThoughtA. Intentional CoordinationB. Strict Co-representationC. The Content of ThoughtD. The Cognitive Puzzle4. Coordination between SpeakersA. Kripke’s PuzzleB. Some Related PuzzlesC. A ResponseD. A SolutionE. A Deeper PuzzleF. A Deeper SolutionG. The Role of Variables in Belief ReportsH. Some Semantical MoralsPostscript: Further WorkIndex