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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782864403321

Autore

Stalnaker Robert

Titolo

Context and content [[electronic resource] ] : essays on intentionality in speech and thought / / Robert C. Stalnaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-159845-3

1-281-97040-9

9786611970406

0-19-151916-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Oxford cognitive science series

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Intentionality (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Details of First Publication""; ""Introduction""; ""I: REPRESENTING CONTEXTS""; ""1 Pragmatics""; ""2 Pragmatic Presuppositions""; ""3 Indicative Conditionals""; ""4 Assertion""; ""5 On the Representation of Context""; ""II: ATTRIBUTING ATTITUDES""; ""6 Semantics for Belief""; ""7 Indexical Belief""; ""8 Belief Attribution and Context""; ""III: EXTERNALISM""; ""9 On What's in the Head""; ""10 Narrow Content""; ""11 Twin Earth Revisited""; ""IV: FORM AND CONTENT""; ""12 Mental Content and Linguistic Form""; ""13 The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I""

""14 The Problem of Logical Omniscience, II""""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

Robert C. Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. He examines how the role that the context in which speech takes place accounts for the way language is used to express thought.