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Zusatztext I think Jody Azzouni is easily one of the best and most creative philosophers alive. Unsurprisingly, his book is a novel and excellent work of philosophy, which is very much at the cutting edge of the discipline. Informationen zum Autor Jody Azzouni is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of Deflating Existential Consequence (OUP, 2004), Tracking Reason (OUP, 2006), and Talking about Nothing (OUP, 2010). Klappentext Humans involuntarily experience physical items as having meaning-properties. Semantic Perception explores this experience--the phenomenology of the understanding of language--in depth. Jody Azzouni shows the many ways that we experience the meaning-properties of language artifacts as independent of the intentions of their makers. Zusammenfassung Humans involuntarily experience physical items as having meaning-properties. Semantic Perception explores this experience--the phenomenology of the understanding of language--in depth. Jody Azzouni shows the many ways that we experience the meaning-properties of language artifacts as independent of the intentions of their makers. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction Methodological preliminaries 1: The experience of understanding expressions 2: Illusions of meaning 3: The phenomenological what is said 4: The experienced distinction between what is said and implicated content First Methodological Interlude: Special Sciences and Evidence 5: Strict content 6: Truth-content Second Methodological Interlude 7: The use and misuse of communicative intentions: Grand-style neo-Griceanism 8: Opportunistic applications of posited communicative intentions 9: Artificial extensions of natural language General Conclusion Bibliography
