基本説明
This selection of new essays by some of the world's leading authorities in this field sheds fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. Contributors: Richard Breheny, Alex Byrne, David Chalmers, Martin Davies. Gareth Evans, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macià, Martine Nida-Rumelin, Christopher Peacocke, James Pryor, Francois Recanati, Scott Soames, Cara Spencer, Robert Stalnaker, Kai-Yee Wong, Stephen Yablo.
Full Description
According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number of different two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense and reference, the contents of thought, and the mind-body problem.
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Contents
1. Introduction ; 2. Anaphoric reference and context sets ; 3. Bad intensions ; 4. The foundations of two-dimensional semantics ; 5. Reference, contingency, and the two-dimensional framework ; 6. Letter to Martin Davies ; 7. Two-dimensionalism: a neo-Fregean interpretation ; 8. Phenomenal belief and phenomenal concepts ; 9. Moral rationalism ; 10. Indexical concepts ; 11. Keeping track of objects in conversation ; 12. Kripke, the necessary aposteriori, and the two-dimensionalist heresy ; 13. Assertion revisited: on the interpretation of two-dimensional modal semantics ; 14. Two-dimenisonalisma and Kripkean A Posteriori Necessity ; 15. Illusions of possibility
