Context and content : essays on intentionality in speech and thought / Robert C. Stalnaker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford pub., 1999.Description: 283 pages; 24cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Unmediated
Carrier type:
  • Volume
ISBN:
  • 0-19-823707-3
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 121 St16
Contents:
I. Representing Contexts. 1. Pragmatics. 2. Pragmatic Presuppositions. 3. Indicative Conditionals. 4. Assertion. 5. On the Representation of Context -- II. Attributing Attitudes. 6. Semantics for Belief. 7. Indexical Belief. 8. Belief Attribution and Context -- III. Externalism. 9. On What`s in the Head. 10. Narrow Content. 11. Twin Earth Revisited -- IV. Form and Content. 12. Mental Content and Linguistic Form. 13. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I. 14. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, II.
Summary: In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected essays: the role that the context in which speech takes place plays in accounting for the way language is used to express thought, and the role of the external environment in determining the contents of our thoughts. Stalnaker argues against the widespread assumption of the priority of linguistic over mental representation, which he suggests has had a distorting influence on our understanding.
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Includes bibliographic references and index

English

I. Representing Contexts. 1. Pragmatics. 2. Pragmatic Presuppositions. 3. Indicative Conditionals. 4. Assertion. 5. On the Representation of Context -- II. Attributing Attitudes. 6. Semantics for Belief. 7. Indexical Belief. 8. Belief Attribution and Context -- III. Externalism. 9. On What`s in the Head. 10. Narrow Content. 11. Twin Earth Revisited -- IV. Form and Content. 12. Mental Content and Linguistic Form. 13. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I. 14. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, II.

In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected essays: the role that the context in which speech takes place plays in accounting for the way language is used to express thought, and the role of the external environment in determining the contents of our thoughts. Stalnaker argues against the widespread assumption of the priority of linguistic over mental representation, which he suggests has had a distorting influence on our understanding.

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