Aboutness

Sommario

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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

Testo aggiuntivo

"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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Yablo, Yablo Stephen
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 11.05.2014
• EAN: 9780691144955
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14495-5
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series; Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc