Content and modality : themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker

Content and modality : themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker / edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne.

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...

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Other Authors: Thomson, Judith Jarvis, Byrne, Alex, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Stalnaker, Robert.
Stalnaker, Robert
Modality (Logic)
Logic.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Logic
Philosophie
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Table of 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.

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