The Things We Mean

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925776-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Stephen Schiffer presents a groundbreaking account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge, and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to explain what the things we mean and believe are. He discusses the relation between semantic and psychological facts, on the one hand, and physical facts, on the other; vagueness and indeterminacy; moral truth; conditionals; and the role of propositional content in information acquisition and explanation. This radical new treatment of meaning will command the attention of everyone who works on fundamental questions about language, and will attract much interest from other areas of philosophy.

Contents/contributors:

- Preface
- 1 The Face-Value Theory
- 2 Pleonastic Propositions
- 3 Meanings and Knowledge of Meaning
- 4 Having Meaning
- 5 Vagueness and Indeterminacy
- 6 Moral Realism and Indeterminacy
- 7 Conditionals and Indeterminacy
- 8 Why Pleonastic Propositions? Content in Information and Explanation
- References
- Indes

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of the philosophy of language: also of linguistics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schiffer, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Schiffer, Department of Philosophy, New York University