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Context by Robert Stalnaker 9780198776871
Booksplease Price: $70.41Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He distinguishes... -
Propositions: Ontology and Logic by Robert Stalnaker 9780197647035
Booksplease Price: $49.75In the third volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, distinguished philosopher Robert Stalnaker here offers a defense of an ontology of propositions, and of some logical resources for... -
Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker by Judith Thomson 9780199282807
RRP: $304.50Booksplease Price: $209.43Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals,... -
Williamson on Modality by Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $89.59Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about... -
Mere Possibilities: Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780691147123
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $105.90It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit... -
Context by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780199645169
Booksplease Price: $125.37Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He distinguishes... -
Attitudes and Changing Contexts by Robert van Rooij 9789048170616
Booksplease Price: $194.02In this book, the author defends a unified externalists account of propositional attitudes and reference, and formalizes this view within possible world semantics. He establishes a link between... -
The Problem of the Essential Indexical by John Perry 9781575862460
Booksplease Price: $140.89This book includes famous papers such as 'The Problem of the Essential Indexical' and 'Frege on Demonstratives' and 'Cognitive Significance and New Theories of Reference'; papers co-authored with... -
The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays, Expanded Edition by John Perry 9781575862699
Booksplease Price: $47.15This book includes famous papers such as "The Problem of the Essential Indexical" and Frege on "Demonstratives and Cognitive Significance and New Theories of Reference"; papers co-authored with Mark... -
Attitudes and Changing Contexts by Robert van Rooij 9781402041761
Booksplease Price: $195.62In this book, the author defends a unified externalists account of propositional attitudes and reference, and formalizes this view within possible world semantics. He establishes a link between... -
Metaphysics, Volume 15 by James E. Tomberlin 9780631230281
Booksplease Price: $221.74Externalism, Naturalism, Mathematics, Ontology, Personal Identity, Time and Tense, The Metaphysics of Reference, The Metaphysics of Properties, Conceivability, The Physical, and Theoretical Identity,... -
The Fragmented Mind by Cristina Borgoni 9780198850670
RRP: $236.25Booksplease Price: $219.35Mental fragmentation is the thesis that the mind is fragmented, or compartmentalized. Roughly, this means that an agent's overall belief state is divided into several sub-states-fragments. These... -
Subjunctive Reasoning by John L. Pollock 9789027707017
Booksplease Price: $190.18I am indebted to many people for the help they gave me in the writing of this book. lowe a large debt to David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker, on both general and specific grounds. As becomes apparent... -
Subjunctive Reasoning by John L. Pollock 9789401015028
Booksplease Price: $193.31I am indebted to many people for the help they gave me in the writing of this book. lowe a large debt to David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker, on both general and specific grounds. As becomes apparent... -
Game Theory and Pragmatics by A. Benz 9781403945723
Booksplease Price: $190.18Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics... -
Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780199251490
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $77.43Ways a World Might Be collects, and adds to, Robert Stalnaker's published papers on metaphysical issues. The central theme that runs throughout the book is the role of possible worlds in articulating... -
Non-Ideal Foundations of Language by Jessica Keiser
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of... -
Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780198237082
RRP: $299.25Booksplease Price: $240.68In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected... -
Knowledge and Conditionals: Essays on the Structure of Inquiry by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780198810346
Booksplease Price: $171.84Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use... -
Our Knowledge of the Internal World by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780199592036
Booksplease Price: $64.01On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. The philosophical problem... -
Word and Plan John MacFarlane 9780231212809
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $203.28We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert "Sam is tall" without having any definite intention about how tall one must be to... -
Word and Plan John MacFarlane 9780231212816
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $53.40We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert "Sam is tall" without having any definite intention about how tall one must be to... -
Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) 9781405109352
RRP: $119.60Booksplease Price: $107.84Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee's papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which... -
Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought by Robert C. Stalnaker 9780198237075
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $77.43In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected... -
The Laws of Belief: Ranking Theory and Its Philosophical Applications by Wolfgang Spohn 9780199697502
Booksplease Price: $248.26Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentation of ranking theory and its ramifications. He...