Remnants of Meaning - Softcover

Schiffer, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262691345 ISBN 13: 9780262691345

Verlag: MIT Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

In this foundational work on the theory of linguistic and mental representation, Stephen Schiffer surveys all the leading theories of meaning and content in the philosophy of language and finds them lacking. He concludes that there can be no correct, positive philosophical theory or linguistic or mental representation and, accordingly advocates the deflationary "no-theory theory of meaning and content."

Along the way he takes up functionalism, the nature of propositions and their suitability as contents, the language of thought and other sententialist theories of belief, intention based semantics, and related issues in ontology.

Stephen Schiffer is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A Bradford Book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262691345
• ISBN 13: 9780262691345
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 325
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