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Context and Content : Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Cognitive Science SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191519161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Context and ContentDDC classification:
  • 121
LOC classification:
  • B831.5.S73 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Details of First Publication -- Introduction -- I: REPRESENTING CONTEXTS -- 1 Pragmatics -- 2 Pragmatic Presuppositions -- 3 Indicative Conditionals -- 4 Assertion -- 5 On the Representation of Context -- II: ATTRIBUTING ATTITUDES -- 6 Semantics for Belief -- 7 Indexical Belief -- 8 Belief Attribution and Context -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Details of First Publication -- Introduction -- I: REPRESENTING CONTEXTS -- 1 Pragmatics -- 2 Pragmatic Presuppositions -- 3 Indicative Conditionals -- 4 Assertion -- 5 On the Representation of Context -- II: ATTRIBUTING ATTITUDES -- 6 Semantics for Belief -- 7 Indexical Belief -- 8 Belief Attribution and Context -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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