Context and content : essays on intentionality in speech and thought / Robert C. Stalnaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stalnaker, Robert, author.

Series:

Oxford cognitive science series.

Oxford cognitive science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Essays on intentionality in speech and thought

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert C. Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. He examines how the role that the context in which speech takes place accounts for the way language is used to express thought.

Contents:

I. Representing Contexts. 1. Pragmatics. 2. Pragmatic Presuppositions. 3. Indicative Conditionals. 4. Assertion. 5. On the Representation of Context

II. Attributing Attitudes. 6. Semantics for Belief. 7. Indexical Belief. 8. Belief Attribution and Context

III. Externalism. 9. On What's in the Head. 10. Narrow Content. 11. Twin Earth Revisited

IV. Form and Content. 12. Mental Content and Linguistic Form. 13. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I. 14. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, II.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-278) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-159845-3

1-281-97040-9

9786611970406

0-19-151916-2

OCLC:

57255829