Situating semantics : essays on the philosophy of John Perry / edited by Michael O'Rourke and Corey Washington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-

Washington, Corey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perry, John, 1943-.

Perry, John.

Physical Description:

vi, 593 pages; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Situating semantics: an overview of the philosophy of John Perry

Prospects for a naturalization of practical reason: instrumentalism and the normative authority of desire

Mathematical objects and identity

Substitution, identity, and the subject-predicate structure

Relativized propositions

Understanding temporal indexicals

Is there a problem of the essential indexical?

The myth of unarticulated constituents

Misplaced modification and the illusion of opacity

On location

Reflections on Reference and reflexivity

Thinking the unthinkable: an excursion into Z-land

Thinking about qualia

A refutation of qualia-physicalism

Situating semantics: a response.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Bibliography of John Perry's publications: pages [577]-585)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262151184

0262151189

9780262651110

0262651114

OCLC:

74987443