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Zusatztext Context and Content will be read with great interest by scholars interested in semantics, pragmatics and philosophy. It is a tremendously interesting, instructive and useful book in that it presents a rigorous, balanced, and well considered theory. Furthermore, it is certain that many of the ideas expounded in this book will have important and promising ramifications. Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Stalnaker is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
