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:

1 online resource (603 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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.John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, is one of a handful of contemporary analytic philosophers to combine the focused approach of most current work in analytic philosophy with the more expansive systems-building of earlier analytic philosophers and contemporary philosophers in other disciplines. Perry, like W.V.O. Quine, Donald Davison, David Lewis, and Hilary Putnam, focuses on narrow topics across a broad range of subjects. In this volume, leading contemporary analytic philosophers contribute original essays in each of the areas that have been most influenced by Perry's work--metaphysics, language, and mind. Perry himself contributes detailed and original replies. After a comprehensive introduction to Perry's work by the editors that places semantics at the heart of Perry's philosophical strategy, the essays discuss Perry's contributions to the metaphysics of identity, the philosophy of language--in particular, contributions related to reference and unarticulated constituents--and the philosophy of mind. The essays and replies provide new perspectives on Perry's philosophical contributions over the last four decades, and yield insights into contemporary debates on these topics. ContributorsRobert Audi, Kent Bach, Patricia Blanchette, Herman Cappelen, Eros Corazza, Ernie Lepore, Brian Loar, Peter Ludlow, Genoveva Marti, Michael McKinsey, Stephen Neale, Michael O'Rourke, John Perry, Francois Recanati, Cara Spencer, Kenneth A. Taylor, Corey Washington

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:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book."

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26403-X

1-282-09902-7

9786612099021

0-262-28092-2

1-4294-8078-5

OCLC:

166143067