Propositional content / Peter Hanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanks, Peter (Peter W.), author.

Series:

Context and content

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Russell, Bertrand.

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.

Frege, Gottlob.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Proposition (Logic).

Language and logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 227 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content, according to which the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. He explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Propositional Content""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Three Pictures of Content""; ""1.1 The Fregean Picture""; ""1.2 An Alternative to the Fregean Picture""; ""1.3 SoamesÂ?s Picture""; ""2: The Problem of the Unity of the Proposition""; ""2.1 Going Primitive""; ""2.2 Frege on the Composition of Thoughts""; ""2.3 Russell on True and False Propositions""; ""2.4 King on Propositional Unity""; ""3: Predication and Unity""; ""3.1 Acts of Predication""; ""3.2 Tokens, Types, and Truth Conditions""

""3.3 Relational Propositions""; ""3.4 Quantified Propositions""; ""4: Cancellation and the Content-Force Distinction""; ""4.1 Cancellation Contexts""; ""4.2 Truth, Negation, Target-shifting, and Anti-predication""; ""4.3 Conjunction and Disjunction""; ""4.4 Supposition and Hypothesis""; ""5: Proper Names and Types of Reference Acts""; ""5.1 Rigidity""; ""5.2 Semantic Reference Types""; ""5.3 Paderewski and Ideal Conditions""; ""5.4 Semantic Competence with Names""; ""5.5 FregeÂ?s Puzzle About Identity""; ""5.6 Names and Translation""; ""6: Empty Names""

""6.1 Empty Names and Semantic Reference Types ""; ""6.2 Existence and Target-shifting""; ""6.3 Problems and Objections""; ""7: Propositional Attitude Reports""; ""7.1 That-clauses and Target-shifting""; ""7.2 Standard and Super-standard Contexts""; ""7.3 Extra Super-standard Contexts and Designation Types""; ""7.4 Sub-standard Contexts and the Paderewski Puzzle""; ""7.5 Propositional Attitude Relations""; ""7.6 Denial""; ""8: First-person Propositions""; ""8.1 Context Sensitive Reference Acts""; ""8.2 De Se Reference""; ""8.3 First-person Propositions and Communication""; ""8.4 De Se Reports""

""9: Asking and Ordering""; ""9.1 Asking""; ""9.2 Wh-questions""; ""9.3 Ordering""; ""9.4 Non-declaratives in Attitude Reports""; ""9.5 Declarations and Other Non-propositional Speech Acts""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-882271-5

0-19-176517-1

OCLC:

907924112