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Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by the foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.
  • Original essays by the foremost thinkers and academics of philosophy discussing the philosophy of language and mind
  • Some of the main topics include demonstratives and anaphora, meaning and naming, belief and privileged access, modality, concepts and time, and paradox


Table of Contents
Part I: Demonstratives and Anaphora:.

1. Competence with Demonstratives: James Higginbotham (University of Southern California).

2. Does Syntax Reveal Semantics? A Case Study of Complex Demonstratives: Kent Johnson (University of California, Irvine) and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).

3. Reference and Anaphora: R.M. Sainsbury (King's College, London).

Part II: Meaning and Naming:.

4. Giorgione Was So-Called Because of His Name: Kent Bach (San Fransisco State University).

5. Truth-Conditional Pragmatics: Anne L. Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina).

6. On Sense and Intention: David Chalmers (University of Arizona).

7. Do Adjectives Conform to Compositionality?: Marga Reimer (University of Arizona).

Part III: Belief and Privileged Access.

8. Forms of Externalism and Privileged Access: Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University).

9. De Re and De Dicto: Against the Conventional Wisdom: Kenneth A. Taylor (Stanford University).

10. The Aim of Belief: Ralph Wedgwood (Merton College, Oxford).

Part IV: Modality, Concepts, and Time:.

11. The Source of Necessity: Robert Hale (University of Glasgow).

12. Modality and What is Said: Jason Stanley (University of Michigan).

13. The Emperor's New Concepts: Neil Tennant (Ohio State University).

14. Time, Idealism, and the Identity of Indiscernibles: James Van Cleve (James Van Cleve).

Part V: Paradox:.

15. The Resolution of Russell's Paradox in Principia Mathematica: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta).

16. Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox: Kirk Ludwig and Greg Ray (Both University of Florida).

Language and Mind Volume 16

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/01/2003
      ISBN13: 9780631234098, 978-0631234098
      ISBN10: 0631234098
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by the foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.
      • Original essays by the foremost thinkers and academics of philosophy discussing the philosophy of language and mind
      • Some of the main topics include demonstratives and anaphora, meaning and naming, belief and privileged access, modality, concepts and time, and paradox


      Table of Contents
      Part I: Demonstratives and Anaphora:.

      1. Competence with Demonstratives: James Higginbotham (University of Southern California).

      2. Does Syntax Reveal Semantics? A Case Study of Complex Demonstratives: Kent Johnson (University of California, Irvine) and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).

      3. Reference and Anaphora: R.M. Sainsbury (King's College, London).

      Part II: Meaning and Naming:.

      4. Giorgione Was So-Called Because of His Name: Kent Bach (San Fransisco State University).

      5. Truth-Conditional Pragmatics: Anne L. Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina).

      6. On Sense and Intention: David Chalmers (University of Arizona).

      7. Do Adjectives Conform to Compositionality?: Marga Reimer (University of Arizona).

      Part III: Belief and Privileged Access.

      8. Forms of Externalism and Privileged Access: Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University).

      9. De Re and De Dicto: Against the Conventional Wisdom: Kenneth A. Taylor (Stanford University).

      10. The Aim of Belief: Ralph Wedgwood (Merton College, Oxford).

      Part IV: Modality, Concepts, and Time:.

      11. The Source of Necessity: Robert Hale (University of Glasgow).

      12. Modality and What is Said: Jason Stanley (University of Michigan).

      13. The Emperor's New Concepts: Neil Tennant (Ohio State University).

      14. Time, Idealism, and the Identity of Indiscernibles: James Van Cleve (James Van Cleve).

      Part V: Paradox:.

      15. The Resolution of Russell's Paradox in Principia Mathematica: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta).

      16. Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox: Kirk Ludwig and Greg Ray (Both University of Florida).

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