Two-dimensional semantics / edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Josep Macià.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García-Carpintero, Manuel, editor.

Macià, Josep, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Summary:

Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with the relationship between the meaning of words, the way the world is, and our knowledge of the meaning of words.

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Pragmatic Analyses of Anaphoric Pronouns: Do Things Look Better in 2-D?; 3. Bad Intensions; 4. The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics; 5. Reference, Contingency, and the Two-Dimensional Framework; 6. Comment on 'Two Notions of Necessity'; 7. Two-Dimensionalism: A Neo-Fregean Interpretation; 8. Phenomenal Belief, Phenomenal Concepts, and Phenomenal Properties in a Two-Dimensional Framework; 9. Rationalism, Morality, and Two Dimensions; 10. Indexical Concepts and Compositionality; 11. Keeping Track of Objects in Conversation

12. Kripke, the Necessary Aposteriori, and the Two-Dimensionalist Heresy 13. Assertion Revisited: On the Interpretation of Two-Dimensional Modal Semantics; 14. Two-Dimensionalism and Kripkean A Posteriori Necessity; 15. No Fool's Cold: Notes on Illusions of Possibility; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04154-7

1-280-90562-X

0-19-153397-1

1-4294-9180-9

OCLC:

609830136