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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784707003321

Titolo

Themes from Kaplan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph Almog, John Perry, Howard Wettstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1989

ISBN

1-280-44019-8

0-19-534534-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (625 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlmogJoseph

KaplanDavid <1929->

PerryJohn <1943->

WettsteinHoward K

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages - 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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Content, Character, and Nondescriptive Meaning; 3 Time and Thisness; 4 Logic and the World; 5 Russellian Intensional Logic; 6 Direct Reference, the Semantics of Thinking, and Guise Theory (Constructive Reflections on David Kaplan's Theory of Indexical Reference); 7 Why Singular Propositions?; 8 Intensionality and the Paradox of the Name Relation; 9 On Direct Reference; 10 The Problem of De Re Modality; 11 Meaning and Explanation; 12 Perceptual Content; 13 Tense and Singular Propositions; 14 Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes

15 Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content16 Singular Propositions, Abstract Constituents, and Propositional Attitudes; Part II; 17 Demonstratives An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals; 18 Afterthoughts

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains a series of articles derived from a conference organized by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University to discuss the work of David Kaplan, together with Kaplan's own unpublished essay: ""Demonstratives"".