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Author:   Gary Ostertag (The Graduate Center, The City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.936kg
ISBN:  

9780199684939

ISBN 10:   0199684936
Pages:   548
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I 1: Amie Thomasson: Easy Ontology and its Consequences 2: Thomas Hofweber: From Remnants to Things, and Back Again 3: Ian Rumfitt: Objects of Thought 4: Michael Smith: Schiffer s Unhappy-Face Solution Part II 5: Gary Ostertag: Propositional Platitudes 6: Ray Buchanan: Schiffer s Puzzle: A Kind of Fregean Response 7: Nathan Salmon: Constraint with Restraint Part III 8: Dorothy Edgington: Schiffer on Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Conditionals 9: Hartry Field: Vagueness, Partial Belief, and Logic 10: Crispin Wright: On the Characterization of Borderline Cases 11: Paul Horwich: The Nature of Paradox Part IV 12: Stephen Neale: Silent Reference 13: Anita Avramides: Abiding Intentions 14: Kent Bach: Schiffer on Russell s Theory and Referential Uses Part V: Replies to the Essays 15: Stephen Schiffer: Pleonastic Entities: Responses to Amie Thomasson, Thomas Hofweber, Ian Rumfitt, and Michael Smith 16: Stephen Schiffer: De Re Belief Reports: Response to Gary Ostertag 17: Stephen Schiffer: The Relativity Feature: Response to Ray Buchanan 18: Stephen Schiffer: De Re Subtleties: Response to Nathan Salmon 19: Stephen Schiffer: Vagueness and Indeterminacy: Responses to Dorothy Edgington, Hartry Field and Crispin Wright 20: Stephen Schiffer: A Source of Paradox: Response to Paul Horwich 21: Stephen Schiffer: Gricean Semantics and Reference: Responses to Anita Avramides, Stephen Neale, and Kent Bach

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Gary Ostertag received his PhD at the Graduate Center, CUNY, writing under Stephen Schiffer. From 2009-2014 he was director of The Saul Kripke Center, where he oversaw the publication of Philosophical Troubles and Reference and Existence. His publications include the edited volume, Definite Descriptions: A Reader (MIT, 1998), and articles, reviews and book chapters in the philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, and musical ontology. Prior to teaching at CUNY and Nassau he was Senior Programmer at Information Builders, Inc., in New York.

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