Two-Dimensional Semantics

Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Curatore)

Josep Macià (Curatore)

Oxford University Press, 2006

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. _

• Curatore: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macià
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 364 p.
• Dimensioni: 242 x 161 mm
• Peso: 687 gr.
• EAN: 9780199271955

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