Castañeda and his guises : essays on the work of Hector-Neri Castañeda / / edited by Adriano Palma

• Pubblicazione: Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetto topico: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
• Soggetto non controllato: Deontic logic; indexicality; metaphysics
• Persona (resp. second.): CastañedaHector-Neri <1924-1991, >; PalmaAdriano <1956->
• Note generali: "Part of the contributions to the Hector's day in Urbino Italy, in the summer of 2011, remembering the 20th anniversary of H-NC's death"--Page 1.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- H-NC and his ambiguous Guises, or, by way of introduction / Palma, Adriano -- Chorus: Hector-Neri Castañeda -- A "kind of glue": Castañeda on Fiction / Dolcini, Nevia -- Practitions in Castañeda's Deontic Logic / Jacquette, Dale -- Castañeda: System, Substance, and Style / Kapitan, Tomis -- Clark's Paradox of Castañeda's Guises: A Brief Memoir / Landini, Gregory -- Arithmetic, Convention, Reality / McCarty, Charles -- Metaphysical Realism and Castañeda's Minimal Transcendental Realism / Orilia, Francesco -- Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: from Algorithm to Curriculum / Rapaport, William J. / Kibby, Michael W. -- Grossmann's Descriptions and Castañeda's Guises / Tegtmeier, Erwin -- Quasi-Indexicals, Kaplanian Monsters, and Self-Consciousness / Varnier, Giuseppe -- Contingent Sameness and Necessary Identity / Voltolini, Alberto -- List of Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume responds to and reassesses the work of Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991). The essays collected here, written by his students, followers, and opponents, examine Castañeda's seminal views on deontic logic, metaethics, indedicality, praticitions, fictions, and metaphysics, utilizing the critical viewpoint afforded by time, as well as new data, to offer insights on his theories and methodology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Castañeda and his guises
• ISBN: 1-61451-929-3; 1-61451-663-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787096103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophische Analyse ; ; Bd. 58.