• Part I: The moving image of eternity. When Einstein walked with Gödel ; Time
• the grand illusion?
• Part II: Numbers in the brain, in platonic heaven, and in society. Numbers guy: the neuroscience of math ; The Riemann Zeta conjecture and the laughter of the primes ; Sir Francis Galton, the father of statistics...and eugenics
• Part III: Mathematics, pure and impure. A mathematical romance ; The avatars of higher mathematics ; Benoit Mandelbrot and the discovery of fractals
• Part IV: Higher dimensions, abstract maps. Geometrical creatures ; A comedy of colors
• Part V: Infinity, large and small. Infinite visions: Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace ; Worshipping infinity: why the Russians do and the French don't ; The dangerous idea of the infinitesimal
• Part VI: Heroism, tragedy, and the computer age. The Ada perplex: was Byron's daughter the first coder? ; Alan Turing in life, logic, and death ; Dr. Strangelove makes a thinking machine ; Smarter, happier, more productive
• Part VII: The cosmos reconsidered. The string theory wars: is beauty truth? ; Einstein, "Spooky action," and the reality of space ; How will the Universe end?
• Part VII: Quick studies: a selection of shorter essays. Little big man ; Doom soon ; Death: bad? ; The looking-glass war ; Astrology and the demarcation problem ; Gödel takes on the U.S. Constitution ; The law of least action ; Emmy Noether's beautiful theorem ; Is logic coercive? ; Newcomb's problem and the paradox of choice ; The right not to exist ; Can't anyone get Heisenberg right? ; Overconfidence and the Monty Hall problem ; The cruel law of eponymy ; The mind of a rock
• Part IX: God, sainthood, truth, and bullshit. Dawkins and the deity ; On moral sainthood ; Truth and reference: a philosophical feud ; Say anything.

"A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction.- Acknowledgments.- Part I: Procedural Semantics.-
• 1. Algorithmic Theory of Meaning.-
• 2. Complexity in Linguistics.- Part II: Simple Quantifiers.-
• 3. Basic Generalized Quantifier Theory.-
• 4. Computing Simple Quantifiers.-
• 5. Cognitive Processing of Quantifiers.- Part III: Complex Quantifiers.-
• 6. Standard Polyadic Lifts.-
• 7. Complexity of Polyadic Quantifiers.-
• 8. Complexity of Quantified Reciprocals.-
• 9. Branching Quantifiers.- Part IV: Collective Quantifiers.-
• 10. Complexity of Collective Quantification.- Part V: Perspectives and Conclusions.- Conclusions.- A. Mathematical Machinery.- Bibliography.- Subject Index.
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This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of linguistics today, studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier expressions by logical means. The classic version was developed in the 1980s, at the interface of linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume, advances in "classic" generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics, this volume adds a computational component, the third pillar of language use and logical activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, logic, AI, and computer science.
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• But Is It Science Fiction? : Science Fiction and a Theory of Genre
• 1 Simon J. Evnine Improve Your Thought Experiments Overnight with Speculative Fiction!
• 29 Ross P. Cameron Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy
• 46 Ben Blumson The Epistemic Value of Speculative Fiction
• 58 Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz The Alienation of Humans and Animals in Uplift Fiction
• 78 Ina Roy-Faderman A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences
• 98 Eric Schwitzgebel and Mara Garza
• This Endless Space between the Words
• 120 Troy Jollimore Metaphysical Daring as a Posthuman Survival Strategy
• 144 Pete Mandik Nowhere Man: Time Travel and Spatial Location
• 158 Sara Bernstein Speculative Fiction and the Philosophy of Perception
• 169 Brian L. Keeley Philosophical Science Fiction Intelligent Gorilla Comes to Shabbos Dinner Eric Linus Kaplan Crash Space
• 186 R. Scott Bakker.
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"Science Fiction and Philosophy" deals with science-fictional thought experiments and their long history in philosophy, with roots back to the mythological inventions of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Zhuangzi. These thought experiments play a prominent role especially in current metaphysical theorizing about personal identity, artificial minds, and the nature of time. This issue includes reflections on the nature of science fiction, on the epistemology of science fictional thought experiments, on our possible moral and social relationships with future intelligent beings, on the prospects of human or post-human self-transformation, and on time travel. While most of the contributions are expository essays written in the typical style of journal articles, two of the contributions are original short stories written by prominent SF writers whose writing is informed by the advanced graduate work theyhave done in philosophy.
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• Linguistic solutions to philosophical problems / Barbara Abbott
• Nonsense and illusions of thought / Herman Cappelen
• The syntax of personal taste / John Collins
• The revenge of the semantics-pragmatics discussion / Josh Dever
• Question-directed attitudes / Jane Friedman
• Logical relations / Lloyd Humberstone
• Expressivism and the offensiveness of slurs / Robin Jeshion
• Conditionals, indeterminacy, and triviality / Justin Khoo
• Supplementives, the coordination account, and conflicting intentions / Jeffrey C. King
• The erotic theory of reasoning: bridges between formal semantics and the psychology of deductive inference / Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas
• Generics, generalism, and reflective equilibrium: implications for moral theorizing from the study of language / Adam Lerner and Sarah-Jane Leslie
• Speaker's reference and anaphoric pronouns / Karen S. Lewis
• Game theory and scalar implicatures / Daniel Rothschild
• Cognitive propositions / Scott Soames
• Deixis (even without pointing) / Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore
• Propositions and compositionality / Juhani Yli-Vakkuri.

• I. NAMES
• 1. Of Names (1881), John Stuart Mill
• 2. On Sense and Reference (1892), Gottlob Frege
• 3. Proper Names (1958), John R. Searle
• 4. From Naming and Necessity (1972), Saul Kripke
• 5. Meaning and Reference (1973), Hilary Putnam
• 6. The Causal Theory of Names (1973), Gareth Evans
• 7. From Frege's Puzzle (1986), Nathan Salmon II. DESCRIPTIONS
• 8. On Denoting (1905), Bertrand Russell
• 9. Descriptions (1919), Bertrand Russell
• 10. On Referring (1950), P. F. Strawson
• 11. Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957), Bertrand Russell
• 12. Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966), Keith Donnellan
• 13. Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference (1977), Saul Kripke III. ASCRIPTIONS
• 14. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956), W. V. Quine
• 15. Quantifying In (1968), David Kaplan
• 16. On Saying That (1968), Donald Davidson
• 17. Synonymity (1952), Benson Mates
• 18. A Puzzle about Belief (1979), Saul Kripke
• 19. The Import of the Puzzle about Belief (1996), David Sosa
• 20. Belief Ascription (1992), Stephen Schiffer IV. COMMUNICATION
• 21. Meaning (1957), H. P. Grice
• 22. Performative Utterances (1961), J. L. Austin
• 23. The Structure of Illocutionary Acts (1969), John R. Searle
• 24. Logic and Conversation (1975), H. P. Grice
• 25. Conversational Impliciture (1994), Kent Bach
• 26. A Nice Derangment of Epitaphs (1985), Donald Davidson V. TRUTH
• 27. The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918), Gottlob Frege
• 28. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944), Alfred Tarski29. Tarski's Theory of Truth (1972), Hartry Field
• 30. Truth and Meaning (1967), Donald Davidson
• 31. What Is a Theory of Meaning? (1975), M. A. E. Dummett VI. ANALYTICITY
• 32. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951), W. V. Quine
• 33. In Defense of a Dogma (1956), H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson
• 34. "Two Dogmas" Revisited (1976), Hilary Putnam VII. INDETERMINANCIES Context
• 35. Assertion (1978), Robert Stalnaker
• 36. Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals (1977), David Kaplan
• 37. The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979), John Perry Rule-Following
• 38. From On Rules and Private Language (1982), Saul Kripke
• 39. The Rule-Following Considerations (1989), Paul A. Boghossian Vagueness
• 40. From Blindspots (1988), Roy Sorenson
• 41. Vagueness without Paradox (1994), Diana Raffman
• 42. Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness (2000), Delia Graff Fara VIII. LANGUAGE
• 43. Of Words (1699), John Locke
• 44. From Philosophical Investigations (1953), Ludwig Wittgenstein
• 45. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950), Carl G. Hempel46. Languages and Language (1975), David Lewis
• 47. Toward a Causal Theory of Linguistic Representation (1977), Dennis W. Stampe48. Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988), Noam Chomsky.
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What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, Sixth Edition, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. Incorporating insights from new coeditor David Sosa, the sixth edition collects forty-eight of the most important articles in the field, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject. Revised to address changing trends and contemporary developments, the sixth edition features eighteen new articles, including influential work by Kent Bach, Paul Boghossian, M. A. E. Dummett, Delia Graff Fara, Hartry Field, H. P. Grice and P.F. Strawson, Carl G. Hempel, Saul Kripke, Benson Mates, Hilary Putnam, Diana Raffman, Nathan Salmon, Stephen Schiffer, John R. Searle, Roy Sorenson, David Sosa, Dennis Stampe, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A general introduction and introductions to each section give students background to the issues and explain the connections between them. A bibliography of suggested further reading follows each section.
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As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal identity, and consciousness. Looking particularly at the way in which he deals with issues of self, communication, and reality, this volume is organized in seven chapters that highlight different aspects of Perry's work on the intersection of these subjects. A fundamental work for students and scholars, "Identity, Language, and Mind" explores questions that are not only essential in understanding Perry's writings, but also contemporary philosophy as a whole.
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• Preface
• PART I. SINGULAR THOUGHT AND ACQUAINTANCE : REJECTING DESCRIPTIVISM
• 1. Singularism vs Descriptivism
• 2. Can Descriptivism Account for Singularity?
• PART II. INTRODUCING FILES
• 3. Non-Descriptive Modes of Presentation as Mental Files
• 4. Mental Files and Identity
• PART III. THE INDEXICAL MODEL
• 5. Mental Indexicals
• 6. Stable Files
• 7. The Dynamics of Files
• PART IV. MENTAL FILES AND COREFERENCE
• 8. The Circularity Objection [followed by Appendix]
• 9. Coreference De Jure: The Transitivity Objection
• PART V. EPISTEMIC TRANSPARENCY
• 10. Slow Switching
• 11. Transparency and its Limits
• PART VI. BEYOND ACQUAINTANCE
• 12. Descriptive Names
• 13. Singular Thought without Acquaintance
• PART VII : VICARIOUS FILES
• 14. Mental Files in Attitude Ascription
• 15. Indexed Files at Work
• PART VIII. THE COMMUNICATION OF SINGULAR THOUGHTS
• 16. Frege and the Sense of 'I'
• 17. Reference Through Mental Files: Indexicals and Definite Descriptions
• PART IX. CONCLUSION
• 18. The Mental File Framework and Its Competitors
• References
• Index.
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Francois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. He aims to recast the 'nondescriptivist' approach to reference that has dominated the philosophy of language and mind in the late twentieth century. According to Recanati, we refer through mental files, which play the role of so-called 'modes of presentation'. The reference of linguistic expressions is inherited from that of the files we associate with them. The reference of a file is determined relationally, not satisfactionally: so a file is not to be equated to the body of (mis)information it contains. Files are like singular terms in the language of thought, with a nondescriptivist semantics. In contrast to other philosophers, Recanati offers an indexical model according to which files are typed by their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects in the environment. The type of the file corresponds to the type of contextual relation it exploits. Even detached files or 'encyclopedia entries' are based on epistemically rewarding relations to their referent, on Recanati's account. Among the topics discussed in this wide-ranging book are: acquaintance relations and singular thought; cognitive significance; the vehicle/content distinction; the nature of indexical concepts; co-reference de jure and judgments of identity; cognitive dynamics; recognitional and perceptual concepts; confused thought and the transparency requirement on modes of presentation; descriptive names and 'acquaintanceless' singular thought; the communication of indexical thoughts; two-dimensional defences of Descriptivism; the Generality Constraint; attitude ascriptions and the 'vicarious' use of mental files; first-person thinking; token-reflexivity in language and thought.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. A short history of reference--
• 3. Acts, roles and singular reference--
• 4. Elements of reference--
• 5. Demonstratives--
• 6. Context sensitivity and indexicals--
• 7. Names--
• 8. Definite descriptions--
• 9. Implicit reference and unarticulated constituents--
• 10. Locutionary content and speech acts--
• 11. Reference and implicature--
• 12. Semantics, pragmatics and critical pragmatics--
• 13. Harnessing information--
• 14. Examples.
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Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people, which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive' or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of language and linguists.
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• 1. Definitions
• 2. What are Word Meanings?
• 3. Semantic Properties of Words
• 4. What are Sentence Meanings?
• 5. Semantic Properties of Sentences
• 6. Meaning and Grammar
• 7. Meaning and Context
• 8. Meaning and Thought
• 9. Conclusion
• Sources and Further Reading
• Index.
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This book offers an introduction to the analysis of meaning. Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed in Paul Elbourne's fascinating guide. He opens by asking what kinds of things the meanings of words and sentences could be: are they, for example, abstract objects or psychological entities? He then looks at how we understand a sequence of words we have never heard before; he considers to what extent the meaning of a sentence can be derived from the words it contains and how to account for the meanings that can't be; and he examines the roles played by time, place, and the shared and unshared assumptions of speakers and hearers. He looks at how language interacts with thought and the intriguing question of whether what language we speak affects the way we see the world. Meaning, as might be expected, is far from simple. Paul Elbourne explores its complex issues in crystal clear language. He draws on approaches developed in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology - assuming a knowledge of none of them -in a manner that will appeal to everyone interested in this essential element of human psychology and culture.
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• The book hunter
• The moment of discovery
• In search of Lucretius
• The teeth of time
• Birth and rebirth
• In the lie factory
• A pit to catch foxes
• The way things are
• The return
• Swerves
• Afterlives.

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.".
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• Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy / Noel Carroll
• Film Appreciation and Moral Insensitivity / Susan L. Feagin
• "I Followed the Rules, and They All Loved You More": Moral Judgment and Attitudes toward Fictional Characters in Film / Carl Plantinga
• American History X, Cinematic Manipulation, and Moral Conversion / Christopher Grau
• Getting Carried Away: Evaluating the Emotional Influence of Fiction Film / Stacie Friend
• The Rationality of Emotion toward Fiction / Seahwa Kim
• Seeing and Imagination: Emotional Response to Fictional Film / E.M. Dadlez
• Empathy and Identification in Cinema / Berys Gaut
• Fiction Film and the Varieties of Empathic Engagement / Margrethe Bruun Vaage
• Hybrid Truths and Emotion in Film / Robert J. Yanal
• Why We Should Give Up on the Imagination / Derek Matravers
• Moving because Pictures? Illusion and the Emotional Power of Film / Robert Hopkins
• The Ghost is the Thing: Can Reactions to Fiction Reveal Belief? / Aaron Smuts
• Vivid Abstractions: On the Role of Emotion Metaphors in Film Viewers' Search for Deeper Insight and Meaning / Anne Bartsch
• Feeling Prufish / Murray Smith
• Mixed Feelings: Conflicts in Emotional Responses to Film / James Harold
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as an Emotional Event / Tarja Laine
• Whimsicality in the Films of Eric Rohmer / Peter Lamarque and Peter Goldie
• Bergman and the Film Image / Gregory Curry.

Film and the Emotions explores the complicated relationship between filmed entertainment, such as movies and television shows, and our capacity to feel emotions. This volume of "The Midwest Studies in Philosophy" covers topics such as the role of imagination in our capacity to respond emotionally to films, how emotions felt in response to films relate to emotions felt about real events, and the moral implications of responding emotionally to fictions, among others. This collection includes nineteen original articles from experts on film and emotion, including Noel Carroll, Gregory Currie, Susan Feagin, Stacie Friend, Robert Hopkins, Peter Lamarque and Peter Goldie, Derek Matravers, Carl Plantinga, and Murray Smith.
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How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love - such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honourable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them 'essays', meaning 'attempts' or 'tries'. Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. "The Essays" was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves. This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boetie and with his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay. And as we read, we also meet his readers - who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, 'how to live?'.
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In "Modal Logic for Open Minds", Johan van Benthem provides an introduction to the field of modal logic, outlining its major ideas and exploring the numerous ways in which various academic fields have adopted it. Van Benthem begins with the basic theories of modal logic, examining its relationship to language, semantics, bisimulation, and axiomatics, and then covers more advanced topics, such as expressive power, computational complexity, and intelligent agency. Many of the chapters are followed by exercises, making this volume ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, symbolic systems, cognitive science, and linguistics.
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• Introduction
• Part 1: Normative Pragmatics
• 1. Thought, Norms, and Discursive Practice Allan Gibbard
• 2. Language not Mysterious? Charles Taylor
• 3. The Evolution of Why Daniel Dennett
• 4. Normativity of Mind Versus Philosophy as Explanation Sebastian Rodl
• 5. Pragmatism and Inferentialism John MacFarlane
• 6. Brandom's Challenges Jeremy Wanderer
• 7. Perception, Language, and the First Person Mark Lance & Rebecca Kukla
• 8. Brandom on Observation John McDowell
• 9. Being Subject to the Rule to do What the Rules Tell You to do Roland Stout
• Part 2: The Challenge of Inferentialism
• 10. Inferentialism and its Critics Robert Brandom
• 11. Brandom Beleaguered Jerry Fodor & Ernest LePore
• Part 3: Inferentialist Semantics
• 12. Inference, Meaning, and Truth in Brandom, Sellars, and Frege Danielle Macbeth
• 13. Should semantics be deflated? Michael Dummett
• 14. Representation or Inference: Must we choose? Should we? Michael Kremer
• 15. What is Logic? Bernhard Weiss
• 16. Truth and Expressive Completeness Kevin Scharp
• 17. Assertibilist Truth and Objective Content: Still Inexplicit Crispin Wright & Bob Hale
• Part 4: Responses Replies Robert Brandom. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years. Featuring specially-commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers with replies by Brandom himself, Reading Brandom clarifies, critically appraises and furthers understanding of Brandom's important book. Divided into four parts - 'Normative Pragmatics'; 'The Challenge of Inferentialism'; 'Inferentialist Semantics'; and 'Brandom's Replies', Reading Brandom covers the following key aspects of Brandom's work: inferentialism vs. representationalism normativity in philosophy of language and mind pragmatics and the centrality of asserting language entries and exits meaning and truth semantic deflationism and logical locutions. Essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of language and mind, Reading Brandom is also an excellent companion volume to Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, also published by Routledge.
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• Introduction
• 1. Signals
• 2. Signals in Nature
• 3. The Flow of Information
• 4. Evolution
• 5. Evolution in Lewis Signaling Games
• 6. Deception
• 7. Learning
• 8. Learning in Lewis Signaling Games
• 9. Generalizing Signaling Games: Synonyms, Bottlenecks and Other Mismatches
• 10. Inventing New Signals
• 11. Networks I: Information Processing
• 12. Complex Signals and Compositionality
• 13. Networks II: Teamwork
• 14. Learning to Network.
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Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools - theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning - to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and introduces a new model of learning with invention. The juxtaposition of atomic signals leads to complex signals, as the natural product of gradual process. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life. Information is transmitted, but it is also processed in various ways. That is how we think - signals run around a very complicated signaling network. Signaling is a key ingredient in the evolution of teamwork, in the human but also in the animal world, even in micro-organisms. Communication and co-ordination of action are different aspects of the flow of information, and are both effected by signals.
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The Oxford German Dictionary provides authoritative coverage of German and English with over 320,000 words and phrases, and 520,000 translations. Essential grammatical information and language usage notes are provided for both languages. This edition of the Oxford German Dictionary includes cultural notes, providing interesting and helpful information on life in the German- and English-speaking world. In addition, there are boxed notes offering help with language usage and construction, and a centre section covering essential correspondence with sample letters, emails, CVs and resumes, and sections on using the telephone and writing text messages. The colour design and ultra-clear layout make it even easier to find the translation you are looking for. This is an essential reference tool for all serious students of German at university level and beyond, and for those who need an authoritative and comprehensive guide to German. Explore our language resources on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's home for dictionaries and language reference. Updated regularly with the latest changes to words and meanings, the site provides hundreds of thousands of definitions, synonyms, and pronunciations in a range of languages. Access the highest quality language content, built from our extensive research, for free on your desktop or device.
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• ELISABETH CAMP & JOHN HAWTHORNE Sarcastic 'Like': A Case Study in the Interface of Syntax and Semantics. HERMAN CAPPELEN The Creative Interpreter: Content Relativism and Assertion. RICHARD DIETZ Betting on Borderline Cases. PAUL ELBOURNE The Argument from Binding. KIT FINE The Impossibility of Vagueness. KAI VON FINTEL What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again? CHRISTOPHER GAUKER Against Accommodation: Heim, van der Sandt, and the PresuppositionProjection Problem. MICHAEL GLANZBERG Quantification and Contributing Objects to Thoughts. PAUL HORWICH A New Framework for Semantics. LLOYD HUMBERSTONE Can Every Modifier be Treated as a Sentence Modifier? STEPHEN KEARNS & OFRA MAGIDOR. Epistemicism about Vagueness and Meta-Linguistic Safety. PETER LASERSOHN Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics. GUY LONGWORTH Comprehending Speech. STEPHEN NEALE Term Limits Revisited. FRANCOIS RECANATI Open Quotation Revisited. DANIEL ROTHSCHILD Presupposition Projection and Logical Equivalence. ZOLT-AN GENDLER SZAB-O Things In Progress. BRIAN WEATHERSON Attitudes and Relativism. ELIA ZARDINI Truth and What Is Said.
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"Philosophical Perspectives 2008: Metaphysics" contains state of the art essays in the philosophy of language from some of the top minds in the field. Essays include cutting-edge research in semantic relativism, presupposition, vagueness, quantification, the foundations of semantics, and other key issues at the heart of the philosophy of language and philosophical linguistics.
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