Robert C Stalnaker

Context and Content

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

interdisciplinary readership. The series will be carefully shaped and steered with the aim of representing the most important developments in the field and bringing together its constituent disciplines.

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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: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780198237082
• ISBN-10: 0198237081
• Artikelnr.: 21496261

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.