Overview
This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard published between 1980 and 2014, alongside four new essays and an introduction that puts the essays in context. Each essay is an attempt, in one way or another, to understand the idea of a proposition. Part I discusses whether the objects of thought and assertion can change truth value over time. Part II develops and defends a relativist view of the objects of assertion and thought; it includes discussions of the nature of disagreement, moral relativism, and responds to important objections to relativism. It also explores the idea that thoughts and assertions may be neither true nor false. Part III discusses issues having to do with relations between sentential and propositional structure. Among the topics discussed in Part III are the semantics of quotation, 'mixed quotation', opacity, philosophical analysis and propositional structure, and the semantics of demonstratives and clausal complements.
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Author: Mark Richard (Harvard University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.614kg
ISBN: 9780198747765
ISBN 10: 0198747764
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 29 October 2015
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
1: Introduction I. Time, Tense, and Truth 2: Temporalism and Eternalism 3: Tense, Propositions, and Meanings 4: Temporalism and Eternalism Revisited II. Relativism, Truth Bearers, and Indeterminacy 5: Contextualism and Relativism 6: What is Disagreement? 7: Relativisms 8: What are Propositions? 9: Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps III. Quotation, Propositional Structure, and Semantic Competence 10: Quotation, Grammar, and Opacity 11: Opacity 12: Did I Mention What He Said? 13: Articulated Terms 14: Analysis, Synonymy, and Sense References Index
Reviews
the book certainly allows us to engage with clearly articulated thought-provoking philosophical views which deserve to be carefully thought through. -- <em>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online</em>
Like the previous volume [Context and the Attitudes], this one includes both important papers that deservedly had a great impact on contemporary philosophy and some new material; hence it is very welcome. Researchers working on the philosophy of language (broadly conceived), the philosophy of mind, and metaphysics will want to have both compilations at hand. * Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *
Like the previous volume [Context and the Attitudes], this one includes both important papers that deservedly had a great impact on contemporary philosophy and some new material; hence it is very welcome. Researchers working on the philosophy of language (broadly conceived), the philosophy of mind, and metaphysics will want to have both compilations at hand. * Manuel García-Carpintero, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *
Author Information
Mark Richard is a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1 (OUP, 2013), Propositional Attitudes (CUP, 1990), When Truth Gives Out (OUP, 2008), and the editor of Meaning (Blackwell, 2002).
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