Content, Cognition, and Communication: Philosophical Papers II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199284726)

Nathan Salmon presents a selection of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analytic philosophy. The book is divided into four thematic sections. The first contains six essays on the theme of direct reference, and associated issues regarding names and descriptions, demonstratives and reflexivity. The four essays in the second section, under the heading of apriority, concern particular consequences of Millianism with respect to the semantic-epistemological status of certain special kinds of sentences. The five essays in the third section develop Salmon's project of reconciling Millianism with a host of problems posed by locutions of propositional attitude, especially by attributions of belief. The volume concludes with four essays about the distinction between meaning and use, or more generally, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.

Author: Nathan U. Salmon
ISBN-10: 0199284725
ISBN-13: 9780199284726
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2007
Pages: 380
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.26w x 0.82d