Situating semantics : essays on the philosophy of John Perry /

Original commentary on the work of philosopher John Perry by prominent contemporary analytic philosophers, with Perry's detailed and original responses; topics include the metaphysics of identity, semantics, and philosophy of mind. John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at S...

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Other Authors: O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-, Washington, Corey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262280921
0262280922
9781429480789
1429480785
0262151189
9780262151184
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Situating semantics: an overview of the philosophy of John Perry / by Michael O'Rourke and Corey Washington
  • 2. Prospects for a naturalization of practical reason: instrumentalism and the normative authority of desire / by Robert Audi
  • 3. Mathematical objects and identity / by Patricia Blanchette
  • 4. Substitution, identity, and the subject-predicate structure / by Genoveva Marti¿
  • 5. Relativized propositions / by Franc¿ois Recanati
  • 6. Understanding temporal indexicals / by Peter Ludlow
  • 7. Is there a problem of the essential indexical? / by Cara Spencer
  • 8. The myth of unarticulated constituents / by Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore
  • 9. Misplaced modification and the illusion of opacity / by Kenneth A. Taylor
  • 10. On location / by Stephen Neale
  • 11. Reflections on reference and reflexivity / by Kent Bach
  • 12. Thinking the unthinkable: an excursion into z-land / by Eros Corazza
  • 13. Thinking about qualia / by Brian Loar
  • 14. A refutation of qualia-physicalism / by Michael McKinsey
  • 15. Situating semantics: a response / by John Perry.