Consciousness and meaning : selected essays / Brian Loar ; edited by Katalin Balog and Stephanie Beardman ; Stephen Schiffer and Katalin Balog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loar, Brian, author.

Contributor:

Balog, Kati, editor, writer of introduction.

Beardman, Stephanie (Assistant professor), editor.

Schiffer, Stephen R., writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Selected essays

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of subjectivity in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume brings together his most important and influential essays in the philosophy of language and of mind.

Contents:

Pt. I Philosophy of Language

Introduction to Part I / Stephen Schiffer

1. Reference and Prepositional Attitudes

2. Two Theories of Meaning

3. Semantics of Singular Terms

4. Must Beliefs Be Sentences?

5. Names in Thought

6. Truth beyond All Verification

7. Supervenience of Social Meaning on Speaker's Meaning

Pt. II Philosophy of Mind

Introduction to Part II / Katalin Balog

8. Social Content and Psychological Content

9. Subjective Intentionality

10. Phenomenal States

11. Can We Explain Intentionality?

12. Elimination versus Non-reductive Physicalism

13. Reference from the First-person Perspective

14. Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia

15. Phenomenal Intentionality as the Basis of Mental Content.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 10, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-175893-0

0-19-166900-8