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1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There are many things / Vann McGee -- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo -- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry -- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker |
| Summary |
Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in which. Stalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed. - ;Eleven distinguished |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-300) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Stalnaker, Robert.
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Stalnaker, Robert |
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Modality (Logic)
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Logic.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Logic
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Modality (Logic)
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Philosophie
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomson, Judith Jarvis.
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Byrne, Alex, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2006020132 |
| ISBN |
9780191515736 |
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0191515736 |
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9780199282807 |
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0199282803 |
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9786610844104 |
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6610844100 |
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