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Semantic relationism / Kit Fine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fine, Kit.
- Series:
- Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ; 1.
- The Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- vii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- Summary:
- In this major contribution to the philosophy of language, Kit Fine argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought. His key idea is that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves. This idea is shown to lead to solutions to many of the standard puzzles in the area - Frege's identity puzzle, Kripke's puzzle about belief, and Moore's paradox of analysis. It is also shown to lead to a more defensible form of direct reference theory - one that is immune to many of the objections that the Fregeans have leveled against it. Based upon the first Blackwell-Brown Lecture Series and the John Locke lectures, this beautifully written and ground-breaking work is essential reading for anyone interested in the representational character of language and thought.
- Contents:
- Coordination among variables
- THe antinomy of the variable
- The Tarskian approach
- The rejection of semantic role
- The instantial approach
- The algebraic approach
- The relational approach
- Relational semantics for first-order logic
- Coordination within language
- Frege's puzzle
- Rejecting compositionality
- Semantic fact
- Closure
- Referentialism reconsidered
- A relational semantics for names
- Transparency
- Coordination within thought
- Intentional coordination
- Strict co-representation
- The content of thought
- The cognitive puzzle
- Coordination between speakers
- Kripke's puzzle
- Some related puzzles
- A response
- A solution
- A deeper puzzle
- A deeper solution
- The role of variables in belief reports
- Some semantical morals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-142) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405108430
- 1405108436
- OCLC:
- 82772595
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