Content and modality : themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker /
Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon,
2006.
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| ISBN: | 9780191515736 0191515736 9780199282807 0199282803 9786610844104 6610844100 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar
- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker
- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski
- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr.
- There are many things / Vann McGee
- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson
- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan
- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo
- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson
- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry
- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames
- Responses / Robert Stalnaker.