Semantic Relationism (Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy) (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy): 1 - Hardcover

Fine, Kit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405108436 ISBN 13: 9781405108430

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

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About this title

Review:

"Combines careful, detailed argumentation with inspiration and synoptic vision for the bigger picture. ... One can reasonably expect Fine's book to be a spur for thinking about these issues for many years to come." (Mind, October 2009)

From the Back Cover:

Kit Fine argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought. His key idea is that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves. This idea is shown to lead to solutions to many of the standard puzzles in the area - Frege's identity puzzle, Kripke's puzzle about belief, and Moore's paradox of analysis. It is also shown to lead to a more defensible form of direct reference theory - one that is immune to many of the objections that the Fregeans have levelled against it. Based upon the first Brown/Blackwell lecture series and the John Locke lectures, this ground-breaking work is essential reading for anyone interested in the general nature of representation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405108436
• ISBN 13: 9781405108430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160