Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker

by Judith Thomson (Editor), Alex Byrne (Editor)

Overview

Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honor of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in which Stalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199282807
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/07/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface     vii
Actors and Zombies   Daniel Stoljar     1
The Frege-Schlick View   Sydney Shoemaker     18
Character Before Content   Paul M. Pietroski     34
Idiolects   Richard G. Heck, Jr.     61
There Are Many Things   Vann McGee     93
Stalnaker on the Interaction of Modality with Quantification and Identity   Timothy Williamson     123
Conditional-Assertion Theories of Conditionals   William G. Lycan     148
Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure   Stephen Yablo     164
The Story of 'Fred'   Frank Jackson     191
Stalnaker and Indexical Belief   John Perry     204
Understanding Assertion   Scott Soames     222
Responses   Robert Stalnaker     251
Publications   Robert Stalnaker     296
List of Contributors     301
Index     303