Act-Based Conceptions of Proportional Content: Contemporary and Historical Essays

ISBN 10: 0199373574 / ISBN 13: 9780199373574

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Act-Based Conceptions of Proportional Content: Contemporary and Historical Essays
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199373574
• ISBN 13: 9780199373574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The notion of a propositional content plays a central role in contemporary philosophy of language. While the Fregean conception of propositions as mind-independent objects has dominated analytic philosophy, a number of philosophers have approached the notion of a propositional content instead by focusing on cognitive acts. The volume present a central selection of historical work and a range of new work within that perspective.

About the Author

Friederike Moltmann is senior researcher at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at New York University. She has published numerous articles in both linguistic and philosophical journals and is author of Parts and Wholes in Semantic (OUP,1997) and Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language (OUP 2013).

Mark Textor is professor of philosophy in King's College London. He works on history of philosophy, especially analytic philosophy, philosophy of language and mind. His book Brentano's Mind is forthcoming with OUP.