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We often find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world. In this new book Ludlow explains how we successfully communicate across some radically diverse perspectival positions, including diverse temporal, spatial and personal positions, through our use of cognitive dynamics.
Sommario
- Introduction
- 1: Why We Need Interperspectival Content
- 2: Tense and Interperspectival Content
- 3: Communication Using Interperspectival Contents
- 4: Some Alternative Accounts of Interperspectival Contents
- 5: Computation, Information, and Interperspectival Content
- 6: A-series/B-series Compatibilism
- 7: Some Additional Metaphysical Questions
- 8: Interperspectival content and Physical Theory
- 9: Conclusion
- Appendix: Presentism
- A1: Is Presentism Either Trivial or False?
- A2: Presentism and the Problem of Temporal Anaphora
Info autore
Peter Ludlow has published in a number of areas, ranging from linguistics and the philosophy of language, to topics concerning group knowledge, blockchain technology, virtual worlds, and hacktivism. His recent published books include Living Words: Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon, and The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics (both with OUP).
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We often find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world. In this new book Ludlow explains how we successfully communicate across some radically diverse perspectival positions, including diverse temporal, spatial and personal positions, through our use of cognitive dynamics.
