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1 online resource |
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Cover; The Philosophy of Charles Travis: Language, Thought, and Perception; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1: The Work of Charles Travis: A Contemporary Overview; 1. Introduction; 2. A Sense of Occasion; 2.1 Occasion-Sensitivity and Semantic Theories; 2.2 Intuitions; 2.3 A General Argument; 2.4 Assessing the Criticisms; 3. Occasion-Sensitive Minds; 3.1 Frege's Philosophy of Mind; 3.2 The Occasion-Sensitivity of Thought and Being the Same Thought; 3.3 What of Compositionality?; 4. Travis on Perception; 4.1 Travis and the Disjunctive Theory of Perception |
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4.2 Against Representationalism5. The Contributions; References; PART I: Thought; 2: On Content and Context: Context-Sensitivity and Some of Its Critics; 1. Putnam and Travis; 2. Tom Donaldson and Ernie Lepore's Two Proofs that "Radical Contextualism" is Inconsistent; their Descriptions of the Position; 3. The Two Reasons Tom Donaldson and Ernie Lepore Give for Claiming that there are Inconsistencies in Radical Contextualism; 4. Do Fodor and Lepore and Travis Talk Past Each Other?; 5. Fodor and Lepore's "Marx Brothers Argument." |
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6. The Relevance of the "Marx Brothers Argument" to Travis's Position7. Are Fodor and Lepore Talking about Context-Sensitivity at All?; 8. So Just What are "Communicative Intentions"?; References; 3: On Rule-Following: Wright, McDowell, and Travis; 1. Introduction; 2. Three Unsatisfactory Attempts at a Middle Course; 2.1 Communitarianism; 2.2 Naturalized Platonism; 2.3 Quietism; 3. Another Way to Understand Wittgenstein on Rule-Following?; References; 4: What Structure Lurks in the Minds of Men?: Frege vs. Fodor; 1. Prologue; 2. Fodor; 2.1 Mental Representations; 2.2 Computations |
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2.3 Content's Only Origin3. Frege; 3.1 The Invisible Realm; 3.2 Decomposing; 3.3 A Certain Generality; 3.4 Publicity; 3.5 Sinn and Proof; 4. Rationality; 4.1 Publicity; 4.2 Meeting the Historical; References; PART II: Language; 5: Wittgenstein, Dummett, and Travis: Theorizing about Logic, Language, and Meaning; 1. The Travisian Parochial; 2. The Possibility of Parochial Logic; 3. The W-T Account vs. Systematic Theories of Meaning; 4. Dimensions of Meaning Determination; 5. The Dynamic Character of Meaning; References; 6: Just What Is It That Makes Travis's Examples So Different, So Appealing? |
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1. Introduction2. Occasion-Sensitivity, Reasonable Judges, and Evidence of Semantic Facts; 3. Reasonable Judges and Experiments; 4. Sources of Skepticism about Reactions to Travis's Examples; 4.1 Experimenter Effects; 4.2 Order of Presentation Effects; 4.3 Contrast Effects; 4.4 The "Rule of Accommodation"; 4.5 Linguistic Asymmetries; 4.6 Summary; 5. Experimenting with Travis's Examples; 5.1 Formal Experimental Evidence in Support of Travis's Reactions to His Examples; 6. Conclusion; References; 7: Communicating by Doing Something Else; 1. Kaplan's Thesis; 2. Occasion-Sensitivity: Some Details |
| Summary |
This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy. Twelve philosophers explore themes in his work, in sections focused on language, thought, and perception; and Travis responds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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"The present collection arose from a conference entitled "Themes from Charles Travis' which took place at the University of East Anglia (UK) in July 2012"--Acknowledgements |
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Travis, Charles, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Collins, John, 1969- editor.
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Dobler, Tamara, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191086502 |
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0191086509 |
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9780191826566 |
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0191826561 |
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