Thought, reference, and experience : themes from the philosophy of Gareth Evans / edited by Jose Luis Bermudez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bermúdez, José Luis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evans, Gareth.

Philosophy of mind.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 325 pages)

Other Title:

Themes from the philosophy of Gareth Evans

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press : Clarendon Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thought, Reference, and Experience is a collection of important new essays on topics at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophical logic. The starting-point for the papers is the brilliant work of the British philosopher Gareth Evans before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of 34. Evans's work on reference and singular thought transformed the Fregean approach to the philosophy of thought and language, showing how seeminglytechnical issues in philosophical semantics are inextricably linked to fundamental questions about the structure of our thinking ab

Contents:

Introduction / Jose Luis Bermudez

Evans's Frege / John McDowell

Names in free logical truth theory / Mark Sainsbury

Plural terms : another variety of reference? / Ian Rumfitt

Abandoning coreference / Ken Safir

Evans and the sense of "I" / Jose Luis Bermudez

Information processing, phenomenal consciousness, and Molyneux's question / John Campbell

"Another I" : representing conscious states, perception, and others / Christopher Peacocke

Space and objective experience / Quassim Cassam

Identity, vagueness, and modality / E.J. Lowe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-320) and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-75422-2

0-19-155455-3

1-4237-5710-6

OCLC:

252630175