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Content and modality [electronic resource] : themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker / edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne.

Contributor(s): Thomson, Judith Jarvis | Byrne, Alex | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006Description: viii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Stalnaker, Robert | Modality (Logic) | Logic | Language and languages -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 191 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There are many things / Vann McGee -- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo -- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry -- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-300) and index.

Actors and zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-Schlick view / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character before content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There are many things / Vann McGee -- Stalnaker on the interaction of modality with quantification and identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure / Stephen Yablo -- The story of 'Fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker and indexical belief / John Perry -- Understanding assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.