Robert Stalnaker

Context and Content

Oxford Cognitive Science Series

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. These collected essays offer philosophers and cognitive scientists a summation of Stalnaker's important and influential work in this area. His new introduction to the volume gives an overview of this work and offers a convenient way in for those who are new to it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780198237075
• ISBN-10: 0198237073
• Artikelnr.: 21056425

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Stalnaker is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
PART I: REPRESENTING CONTEXTS: 1. Pragmatics
2. Pragmatic Presuppositions
3. Indicative Conditionals
4. Assertion
5. On the Representation of Context
PART II: ATTRIBUTING ATTITUDES: 6. Semantics for Belief
7. Indexical Belief
8. Belief Attribution and Context
PART III: EXTERNALISM: 9. On What's in the Head
10. Narrow Content
11. Twin Earth Revisited
IV: FORM AND CONTENT: 12. Mental Content and Linguistic Form
13. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I
14. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, II
References
Index.