Content and modality [electronic resource] : themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker / edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: viii, 304 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 191 22
LOC classification:
  • BC199.M6 C65 2006eb
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Contents:
Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There are many things / Vann McGee -- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo -- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry -- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-300) and index.

Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There are many things / Vann McGee -- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo -- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry -- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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