
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Oxford University Press
Published on 6. April 2006
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-0-19-927195-5 (ISBN)
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According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number of different two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense and reference, the contents of thought, and the mind-body problem.
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding _ two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, _ epistemology, and metaphysics. _
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding _ two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, _ epistemology, and metaphysics. _
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
710 gr
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978-0-19-927195-5 (9780199271955)
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Two-Dimensional Semantics
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1. Introduction ; 2. Anaphoric reference and context sets ; 3. Bad intensions ; 4. The foundations of two-dimensional semantics ; 5. Reference, contingency, and the two-dimensional framework ; 6. Letter to Martin Davies ; 7. Two-dimensionalism: a neo-Fregean interpretation ; 8. Phenomenal belief and phenomenal concepts ; 9. Moral rationalism ; 10. Indexical concepts ; 11. Keeping track of objects in conversation ; 12. Kripke, the necessary aposteriori, and the two-dimensionalist heresy ; 13. Assertion revisited: on the interpretation of two-dimensional modal semantics ; 14. Two-dimensionalism, context and reference ; 15. Illusions of possibility