Content, Cognition, and Communication: Philosophical Papers II

by Nathan Salmon

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199284726
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/24/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

IntroductionI. Direct Reference1. A Millian Heir Rejects the Wages of Sinn (1990)2. Reflexivity (1986)3. Reflections on Reflexivity (1992)4. Demonstrating and Necessity (2004)5. Are General Terms Rigid? (2003)6. A Theory of Bondage (2006)II. Apriority7. How to Measure the Standard Metre (1987)8. How Not to Become a Millian Heir (1991)9. Relative and Absolute Apriority (1993)10. Analyticity and Apriority (1993)III. Belief11. Illogical Belief (1989)12. The Resilience of Illogical Belief (2005)13. Being of Two Minds: Belief with Doubt (1995)14. Relational Belief (1995)15. Is iDe Re/i Belief Reducible to De Dicto? (1998)IV. Semantics and Pragmatics16. Assertion and Incomplete Definite Descriptions (1982)17. The Pragmatic Fallacy (1991)18. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2004)19. Two Conceptions of Semantics (2004)Bibliography of Nathan Salmon, 1979 onwards

Editorial Reviews

"...the publication of this book is most welcome. It collects together for the first time a group of papers by one of the most original, provocative and influential philosophers of language of the last three decades, constituting an extremely valuable resource for scholars in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology.... the collection as a whole sets forth one of the most advanced and systematic developments of a Millian perspective on singular thought. It is an absolute must for philosophers of language, philosophers of mind and epistemologists alike, and very warmly recommended to any philosopher with an interest in its topics. I've learnt much from studying the papers included in it, and I'm sure that many other readers will do so as well."—Elia Zardini, Notre Dame Philosophical Reivews

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