Semantic Relationism - Brossura

Fine, Kit

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ISBN 10: 1405196696 ISBN 13: 9781405196697

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Riassunto

Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language.

• A major contribution to the philosophy of language, now available in paperback
• Written by one of today’s most respected philosophers
• Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought
• Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves
• Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today’s leading philosophers

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Recensione

"With characteristic brilliance and rigor, Kit Fine advances aradically new conception of semantic structure that casts lightfrom an unexpected direction on the nature of compositionality andthe theory of direct reference."
Tim Williamson, Oxford University

"How can two sentences represent the world as being preciselythe same way, yet differ in meaning, and express propositions thatare rationally believed in different circumstances? Echoing themesinitially broached by such philosophers as Hilary Putnam and DavidKaplan, Kit Fine answers with a novel conception of semanticsuniting the two–sided connection of meaning with mind and world,and culminating in an ingenious, representationalist theorydesigned to incorporate contemporary Millianism while accommodatingtraditional Fregean intuitions. A delight to read, the book will bemined for its ideas and arguments for years to come."
Scott Soames, University of SouthernCalifornia

L'autore

Kit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, and specializes in metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. He is the author of Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985), The Limits of Abstraction (2002) and Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (2005) and the co-author of Worlds, Times and Selves (1977). He has also written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory, in addition to the papers in his central fields of interest.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405196696
• ISBN 13: 9781405196697
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 160