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Author Stalnaker, Robert.

Title Context and content : essays on intentionality in speech and thought / Robert C. Stalnaker
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford cognitive science series
Oxford cognitive science series.
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 Robert C. Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. He examines how the role that the context in which speech takes place accounts for the way language is used to express thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-278) and index
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Subject Pragmatics.
Intentionality (Philosophy)
pragmatics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Intentionality (Philosophy)
Pragmatics
Pragmatiek.
Intentionaliteit.
Form Electronic book
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