Fine Semantic Relationism

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-76600-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy

Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, KitFine's Semantic Relationism is a major contribution tothe philosophy of language.
* Written by one of today's most respectedphilosophers
* Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study ofrepresentation in language and thought
* Proposes that there may be representational relationshipsbetween expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded inthe intrinsic representational features of the expressions orelements themselves
* Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lecturesin Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures bytoday's leading philosophers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fine, Kit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Introduction.
1. Coordination among Variables.
A. The Desiderata.
B. The Problem.
C. The Contextualist Response.
D. The Dismissive Response.
E. The Instantial Approach.
F. The Algebraic Approach.
G. Relational Semantics for First-order Logic.
2. Coordination within Language.
A. Frege's Puzzle.
B. Rejecting Compositionality.
C. Semantic Fact.
D. Closure.
E. Referentialism Reconsidered.
F. A Relational Semantics for Names.
G. Transparency.
3. Coordination within Thought.
A. Intentional Coordination.
B. Strict Co-representation.
C. The Content of Thought.
D. The Cognitive Puzzle.
4. Coordination between Speakers.
A. Kripke's Puzzle.
B. Some Related Puzzles.
C. A Response.
D. A Solution.
E. A Deeper Puzzle.
F. A Deeper Solution.
G. The Role of Variables in Belief Reports.
H. Some Semantical Morals.
Postscript: Further Work.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, and specializes in Metaphysics, Logic, and Philosophy of Language. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. He is the author of Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (2005), and the co-author of Worlds, Times and Selves and Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985). He has also written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory, in addition to the papers in his central fields of interest.