Two-Dimensional Semantics

Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macià (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

364 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927202-0 (ISBN)

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Presents a selection of essays by an international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications.

According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number of different two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense and reference, the contents of thought, and the mind-body problem.
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

1. Introduction ; 2. Anaphoric reference and context sets ; 3. Bad intensions ; 4. The foundations of two-dimensional semantics ; 5. Reference, contingency, and the two-dimensional framework ; 6. Letter to Martin Davies ; 7. Two-dimensionalism: a neo-Fregean interpretation ; 8. Phenomenal belief and phenomenal concepts ; 9. Moral rationalism ; 10. Indexical concepts ; 11. Keeping track of objects in conversation ; 12. Kripke, the necessary aposteriori, and the two-dimensionalist heresy ; 13. Assertion revisited: on the interpretation of two-dimensional modal semantics ; 14. Two-dimenisonalisma and Kripkean A Posteriori Necessity ; 15. Illusions of possibility

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.4.2006
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 233 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-927202-6 / 0199272026
ISBN-13	978-0-19-927202-0 / 9780199272020
Zustand	Neuware