Context and the Attitudes, Volume 1: Meaning in Context

by Mark Richard

Book Overview

Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk about such attitudes, an account on which in saying what someone thinks, we offer our words as a 'translation' or representation of the way the target of our talk represents the world. A broad range of topics in philosophical semantics and the philosophy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557950
• ISBN13: 9780199557950
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"