New Essays on the Nature of Propositions

Herausgeber: Hunter, David; Rattan, Gurpreet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Propositions have been used to explain cognitive thought, language, communication, and philosophical concepts of truth, necessity and possibility. Based on the theories of Frege and Russell, propositions are structured abstract objects, independent of mind and language, possessing essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Recent theorizing doubts the existence of propositions and our ability to grasp, entertain, and know them, but most importantly, whether the abstract approach can explain propositions. The papers in this volume use these doubts to explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138858992
• ISBN-10: 1138858994
• Artikelnr.: 42470821

Autorenporträt

David Hunter is Associate Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He works on issues at the intersection of belief and action, and is the Editorial Board Coordinator of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Gurpreet Rattan is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His primary interests are in the philosophy of language, mind, and epistemology. His current project attempts to articulate unified accounts of truth, disagreement, and relativism, accounts organized around the semantics and epistemology of the metarepresentation involved in critical reflective thinking and disagreement. His longer term project is on the comparative metaphysics and epistemology of propositions and numbers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: On Act- and Language-Based Conceptions of
Propositions 2. Two aspects of propositional unity 3. An
empirically-informed cognitive theory of propositions 4. What are the
primary bearers of truth? 5. Not the optimistic type 6. Why it isn't syntax
that unifies the proposition 7. Why we should not identify sentence
structure with propositional structure Part II: Constituents and
Constituency 8. Individuating Fregean sense 9. The metaphysics of
propositional constituency Part III: Theoretical Alternatives to
Propositions 10. Propositions, attitudinal objects, and the distinction
between actions and products 11. What are Propositions? 12. Conversational
implicature, communicative intentions, and content 13. Propositions and
higher-order attitude attributions Part IV: Modal Metaphysics 14.
Unnecessary existents 15. Contingently existing propositions