Revisiting the Essential Indexical (Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Perry, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1684000610 ISBN 13: 9781684000616

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2021

Synopsis

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on “the essential indexical.” He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions about the relation between the issues of opacity and cognitive significance, and other basic misunderstandings of his views. While dealing with criticisms, Perry makes a number of points about self-knowledge, the issue that motivated his original papers.

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About the Author

John Perry is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, where he taught from 1974 to 2008, and from the University of California, Riverside, where he taught from 2008 to 2014. He has written books and articles on semantics (including pioneering work on situation semantics, with Jon Barwise), personal identity, the philosophy of language consciousness and other philosophical topics. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research, including honorary degrees from Doane College, the University of the Basque Country, and Bochum University. He is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1684000610
• ISBN 13: 9781684000616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146