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Titolo |
Content and modality [[electronic resource] ] : themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker / / edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-04284-5 |
1-280-84410-8 |
0-19-151573-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ThomsonJudith Jarvis |
ByrneAlex |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Modality (Logic) |
Logic |
Language and languages - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-300) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There are many things / Vann McGee -- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo -- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry -- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial |
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