Semantic Relationism (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy)

Kit Fine

ISBN 10: 1405196696 / ISBN 13: 9781405196697

Editore: Wiley-Blackwell 2009-08-07, 2009

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• Titolo: Semantic Relationism (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy)
• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell 2009-08-07
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1405196696
• ISBN 13: 9781405196697
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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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

Informazioni sull?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.