Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought

by Robert C. Stalnaker

Overview

In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. These collected essays offer philosophers and cognitive scientists a summation of Stalnaker's important and influential work in this area. His new introduction to the volume gives an overview of this work and offers a convenient way in for those who are new to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198237082
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/01/1999
Series:	Oxford Cognitive Science Series
Pages:	293
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

Robert C. Stalnaker is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction; PART I: REPRESENTING CONTEXTS: 1. Pragmatics; 2. Pragmatic Presuppositions; 3. Indicative Conditionals; 4. Assertion; 5. On the Representation of Context; PART II: ATTRIBUTING ATTITUDES: 6. Semantics for Belief; 7. Indexical Belief; 8. Belief Attribution and Context; PART III: EXTERNALISM: 9. On What's in the Head; 10. Narrow Content; 11. Twin Earth Revisited; IV: FORM AND CONTENT: 12. Mental Content and Linguistic Form; 13. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, I; 14. The Problem of Logical Omniscience, II; References; Index.