Assertion and Conditionals

Klappentext This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. Zusammenfassung This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational! and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cartesianism, behaviourism and the philosophical context; Part I. Belief: 2. A theory of the mind; 3. Belief and decision; 4. Computation; 5. Truth conditions; Part II. Meaning: 6. Realism and truth-theory; 7. Assertion; Part III. Conditionals: 8. Indicative conditionals; 9. Truth and triviality; 10. Logic without truth; 11. Generalising the probabilistic semantics of conditionals.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Appiah, Appiah Anthony
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521071291
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07129-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; English, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy: logic