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Themes from Kaplan / edited by Joseph Almog, John Perry, Howard Wettstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Kaplan, David, 1929-.
- Kaplan, David.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (625 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume contains a series of articles derived from a conference organized by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University to discuss the work of David Kaplan, together with Kaplan's own unpublished essay: ""Demonstratives"".
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Content, Character, and Nondescriptive Meaning; 3 Time and Thisness; 4 Logic and the World; 5 Russellian Intensional Logic; 6 Direct Reference, the Semantics of Thinking, and Guise Theory (Constructive Reflections on David Kaplan's Theory of Indexical Reference); 7 Why Singular Propositions?; 8 Intensionality and the Paradox of the Name Relation; 9 On Direct Reference; 10 The Problem of De Re Modality; 11 Meaning and Explanation; 12 Perceptual Content; 13 Tense and Singular Propositions; 14 Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes
- 15 Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content16 Singular Propositions, Abstract Constituents, and Propositional Attitudes; Part II; 17 Demonstratives An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals; 18 Afterthoughts
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-44019-8
- 0-19-534534-7
- OCLC:
- 476015533
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