Overview
Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place,explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
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Author: Peter Hanks (University of Minnesota)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.30cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.90cm
Weight: 0.416kg
ISBN: 9780199684892
ISBN 10: 0199684898
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 04 June 2015
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
.. .a highly enjoyable and interesting contribution to the literature on the nature and role of propositions in philosophy. Moreover, by providing a detailed, book-length defense of the type-view of propositions, PC reinforces this way of thinking about propositions as a main contender in this area...It should be a must-read for anyone interested in the nature of propositions. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online .. .a highly enjoyable and interesting contribution to the literature on the nature and role of propositions in philosophy. Moreover, by providing a detailed, book-length defense of the type-view of propositions, PC reinforces this way of thinking about propositions as a main contender in this area...It should be a must-read for anyone interested in the nature of propositions. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
.. .a highly enjoyable and interesting contribution to the literature on the nature and role of propositions in philosophy. Moreover, by providing a detailed, book-length defense of the type-view of propositions, PC reinforces this way of thinking about propositions as a main contender in this area...It should be a must-read for anyone interested in the nature of propositions. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Author Information
Peter Hanks is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. His research is in philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy.
