Mark Richard

Truth and Truth Bearers

Meaning in Context, Volume II

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Produktbeschreibung

This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard, alongside four new essays and an introduction. Each essay attempts to understand the idea of a proposition. Richard explores the truth value of objects of thought and assertion; defends a relativist view of those objects; and discusses relations between sentential and propositional structure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press; Oup Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198747765
• ISBN-10: 0198747764
• Artikelnr.: 43556255

Autorenporträt

Mark Richard is a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1 (OUP, 2013), Propositional Attitudes (CUP, 1990), When Truth Gives Out (OUP, 2008), and the editor of Meaning (Blackwell, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
I. Time, Tense, and Truth
2: Temporalism and Eternalism
3: Tense, Propositions, and Meanings
4: Temporalism and Eternalism Revisited
II. Relativism, Truth Bearers, and Indeterminacy
5: Contextualism and Relativism
6: What is Disagreement?
7: Relativisms
8: What are Propositions?
9: Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps
III. Quotation, Propositional Structure, and Semantic Competence
10: Quotation, Grammar, and Opacity
11: Opacity
12: Did I Mention What He Said?
13: Articulated Terms
14: Analysis, Synonymy, and Sense
References
Index