Truth and Truth Bearers: Meaning in Context, Volume II

ISBN-13: 9780198747765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str.

Mark Richard

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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).