Aboutness

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About the author

Stephen Yablo is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties and Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality.

Summary

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to o

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"Yablo’s book is a masterly and esoteric philosophical discussion of the role subject matter plays in the production of meaning..."---Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Yablo, Yablo Stephen
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2014
• EAN: 9780691144955
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14495-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series; Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc