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Interperspectival content / Peter Ludlow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ludlow, Peter, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indexicals (Semantics).
- Perspective (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- New product edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- We often find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world. In this work Ludlow explains how we successfully communicate across some radically diverse perspectival positions, including diverse temporal, spatial and personal positions, through our use of cognitive dynamics.
- Contents:
- Why we need Interperspectival content
- Tense and interperspectival content
- Tense
- Perspectival position and interperspectival content
- The varieties of perspectivalism
- Sloppy thinking?
- Communication using interperspectival contents
- Sense and interperspectival content
- The cognitive dynamics of attitude attribution
- Microlanguages and local theories
- The cognitive dynamics of indexicals and interperspectival contents
- Rip van Winkle
- Some alternative accounts of interperspectival content
- Token indexical theories
- Tense as a mere psychological content
- Lewis on the De Se
- Kaplanian character and its deployment
- Computation, information, and interperspectival content
- Computational states and interperspectival content
- Information and iterperspectival content
- A-series/B-series compatibilism
- McTaggart's objection
- The problem of the moving now
- An interlude on the dynamic lexicon
- How A-series/B-series compatibilism works
- Compatibilism and the flow of time
- Some additional metaphysical questions
- The truth-makers problem
- Humean supervenience
- Interperspectival content and physical theory
- The alleged relativistic problem for the tenser
- On the alleged innocence of the earlier-than/later-than relation
- The need for interperspectival content in scientific practice
- The need for interperspectival content in scientific theory
- Conclusion
- Appendix: presentism.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-255707-6
- 0-19-186257-6
- 0-19-255706-8
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