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Necessary Intentionality - A Study in the Metaphysics of Aboutness

English · Hardback

Will be released 15.03.2012

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Zusatztext A sustained defense of the necessary aboutness of language and of cognitive states, based on an account of modality according to which the space of possibilities is determined by the natures of existing particular things. Simchen revisits arguments about, among other topics, actualism, essentialism, rigidity, the de re/de dicto distinction, and the distinction between narrow and wide content shedding new light on old themes. This book should be of interest to anyone working on reference, modality or cognition. Informationen zum Autor Ori Simchen received his PhD in 1999 from Harvard University and is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Colombia. Klappentext Is it possible for the name of a particular person not to refer to that person? Ori Simchen defends a negative answer to this question, and presents a new account of aboutness, or intentionality. He argues that intentional items--such as words, thoughts, photos--are about whatever they are about as a matter of necessity, rather than contingency. Zusammenfassung Is it possible for the name of a particular person not to refer to that person? Ori Simchen defends a negative answer to this question, and presents a new account of aboutness, or intentionality. He argues that intentional items--such as words, thoughts, photos--are about whatever they are about as a matter of necessity, rather than contingency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Modality 1: Particular Possibilities 2: General Possibilities Intentionality 3: The Intentionality of Words Appendix I: Necessity in Reference 4: Epistemology Factualized 5: Cognitive States as Relational Appendix II: Omniscient Believing and Consistency Bibliography Index

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Authors Ori Simchen, Ori (University of British Columbia) Simchen
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 15.03.2012, delayed
 
EAN 9780199608515
ISBN 978-0-19-960851-5
No. of pages 200
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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