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1 online resource (341 pages) |
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UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
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| Contents |
4 The Non-external Intentionality of My Own Thoughts; 5 Displaying Thoughts to Oneself; 6 An Objective, Non-intentional View of the Phenomenon; 7 Understanding Others; 8 The Objective Basis of Projective Intentionality; 9 Has the Argument Been to the Point?; 10 Objective Reference and Subjective Intentionality; 10: Phenomenal States; 1 The Knowledge Argument and its Semantic Premise; 2 Recognitional Concepts; 3 Phenomenal Concepts as Recognitional Concepts; 4 The Concept ̀Phenomenal Concept;́ 5 Phenomenal Modes of Presentation; 6 Third-person Ascriptions; 7 Knowing How versus Knowing That |
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8 The Explanatory Gap; 9 Subjective Concepts and Subjective Properties; 10 Phenomenal Structure, and Exotic Others; 11 Transparency; 12 Incorrigibility; 13 Functionalism; 11: Can We Explain Intentionality?; I; II; III; Problems for Sufficiency: Deferential Concepts; Questions about Sufficiency: Guiding Conceptions; Questions about Sufficiency: References outside the Head; IV; Simple Predicates and Atomic Reference; V; Reference-determining Circumstances; VI; False Ascriptions of Recognitional Concepts; 12: Elimination versus Non-reductive Physicalism; 1 Nominalism and Ontological Physicalism |
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2 Non-reductive Supervenience; 3 Supervenient Explanation; 4 A Priori Reasons for Supervenience; 5 A Posteriori Reasons for Supervenience; 13: Reference from the First-person Perspective; 1 What Makes a Causal Relation a Semantic Relation?; 2 The Objective Indeterminacy of Reference; 3 Disquotation as a Constraint on Reference; 4 Disquotational Term-object Pairs from the Subjective Perspective. The Interplay of Subjective and Objective Perspectives; 5 Appearances; 6 What Makes a Relation a Reference Relation?; 7 What Makes a Relation-concept a Reference-concept? |
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8 Recognitional Concepts and Perspectives |
| Summary |
One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of subjectivity in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume brings together his most important and influential essays in the philosophy of language and of mind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Consciousness.
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Consciousness
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Balog, Kati, editor
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Beardman, Stephanie (Assistant professor), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191669002 |
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0191669008 |
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9780192513496 |
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0192513494 |
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9780191758935 |
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0191758930 |
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