How Reference Works: Explanatory Models for Indexicals, Descriptions, and Opacity (SUNY series, Scientific Studies in Natural and Artificial Intelligence) - Hardcover

Roberts, Lawrence D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791415759 ISBN 13: 9780791415757

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1993

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Book by Roberts Lawrence D

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"This is a book about how certain referring expressions in a natural language (English) manage to refer to objects in the world when used by speakers. Within the philosophy of language, the problem of reference has never been adequately solved. When viewed as a work in the philosophy of language, this book offers an interesting approach (if not a solution) to the problem of reference. However, the book's appeal is much broader than the philosophy of language. The problem of reference is also important to the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This is probably why philosophers of language never developed a theory of reference in the first place: they were looking at words only. Roberts, on the other hand, looks not only at words (referring expressions), but also at minds.

"The book's approach to the philosophy of mind and cognitive science is novel, and has something important to say to philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists as well as philosophers of language. Both perception and context have been concerns of philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists for years, but not much progress has been made. This book is definitely progress." -- Eric Dietrich, State University of New York at Binghamton

Reseña del editor:

If some aspects of human behavior are too murky to see into, others are too close and transparent to examine; one that has eluded both scientists and philosophers is how speakers of natural languages make words and expressions refer to specific objects in the world. Marshalling his expertise in philosophy, computers, and system science (State U. of

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0791415759
• ISBN 13: 9780791415757
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192