| Description |
1 online resource (625 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Content, Character, and Nondescriptive Meaning; 3 Time and Thisness; 4 Logic and the World; 5 Russellian Intensional Logic; 6 Direct Reference, the Semantics of Thinking, and Guise Theory (Constructive Reflections on David Kaplan's Theory of Indexical Reference); 7 Why Singular Propositions?; 8 Intensionality and the Paradox of the Name Relation; 9 On Direct Reference; 10 The Problem of De Re Modality; 11 Meaning and Explanation; 12 Perceptual Content; 13 Tense and Singular Propositions; 14 Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes |
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15 Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content16 Singular Propositions, Abstract Constituents, and Propositional Attitudes; 17 Demonstratives An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals; 18 Afterthoughts |
| Summary |
This volume contains a series of articles derived from a conference organized by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University to discuss the work of David Kaplan, together with Kaplan's own unpublished essay: "Demonstratives." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kaplan, David, 1929-2012.
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Kaplan, David, 1929-2012. |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perry, John
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Wettstein, Howard
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| LC no. |
88010027 |
| ISBN |
9780195345346 |
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0195345347 |
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1280440198 |
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9781280440199 |
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