Stephen Schiffer

The Things We Mean

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Schiffer presents a groundbreaking account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge, and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to explain what the things we mean and believe are. He discusses the relation between semantic and psychological facts, on the one hand, and physical facts, on the other; vagueness and indeterminacy; moral truth; conditionals; and the role of propositional content in information acquisition and explanation. This radical new treatment of meaning will command the attention of everyone who works on fundamental questions about language, and will attract much interest from other areas of philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780199257768
• ISBN-10: 0199257760
• Artikelnr.: 21177057

Autorenporträt

Stephen Schiffer, Department of Philosophy, New York University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: The Face-Value Theory
2: Pleonastic Propositions
3: Meanings and Knowledge of Meaning
4: Having Meaning
5: Vagueness and Indeterminacy
6: Moral Realism and Indeterminacy
7: Conditionals and Indeterminacy
8: Why Pleonastic Propositions? Content in Information and Explanation
References
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