{"product_id":"philosophical-essays-volume-2-9780691136837","title":"Philosophical Essays Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrates the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics - including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; and, the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The wealth of ideas contained within this volume moves the philosophical conversation well forward with originality, high-level criticism, and exhaustive thoroughness. This work is so thick with detail that only a thin layer of the surface could be presented here; yet, hopefully, these samples paint an accurate picture of what is a precise, technical, and surgery-like analysis contribution to the contemporary conversation about the philosophical significance of language.\"--Austin Ward, Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Origins of These Essays ix  Introduction 1      Part One: Reference, Propositions, and Propositional Attitudes 31  Essay One: Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content 33  Essay Two: Why Propositions Can't Be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances 72  Essay Three: Belief and Mental Representation 81  Essay Four: Attitudes and Anaphora 111      Part Two: Modality 137  Essay Five: The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions 139  Essay Six: The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori 165  Essay Seven: Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds 189  Essay Eight: Understanding Assertion 211  Essay Nine: Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism 243  Essay Ten: Actually 277      Part Three: Truth and Vagueness 301  Essay Eleven: What Is a Theory of Truth? 303  Essay Twelve: Understanding Deflationism 323  Essay Thirteen: Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates 340  Essay Fourteen: The Possibility of Partial Definition 362      Part Four: Kripke, Wittgenstein, and Following a Rule 383  Essay Fifteen: Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-Following Paradox 385  Essay Sixteen: Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox 416      Index 457","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49922420080983,"sku":"9780691136837","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691136837.jpg?v=1738537831","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philosophical-essays-volume-2-9780691136837","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}