Home » Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays, Expanded Edition
John Perry

Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays, Expanded Edition

★★★★★
★★★★★
€26.50
A01=John Perry
acceptance
Author_John Perry
Category=CFA
Category=CFG
cognitive science
context
demonstratives
direct references
doubt
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
essay collection
essential indexical
human thought
i
indexicals
languages
linguistics
linguists
meaning
perception
philosophers
philosophical research
philosophy
reference
reflexivity
semantics
significance
significant
situations
slingshot
structure of belief
unarticulated constituents
understanding
words

Product details

  • ISBN 9781575862699
  • Weight: 567g
  • Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2000
  • Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

Description
This book includes famous papers such as "The Problem of the Essential Indexical" and Frege on "Demonstratives and Cognitive Significance and New Theories of Reference"; papers co-authored with Mark Crimmins ("The Prince and the Phone Booth") and David Israel ("Fodor on Psychological Explanations") and related papers on situation semantics, direct reference, and the structure of belief. Perry has added afterwords that discuss responses to his work by Gareth Evans, Robert Stalnaker, Barbara Partee, Howard Wettstein and others. The word "I" is called an indexical which means who it stands for depends on who says it, not just on its meaning. Other indexicals are "you," "here" and "now." Perry discusses how these words work, and why they express important philosophical thoughts. He claims that indexicals pose a challenge to traditional assumptions about language and thought, and for that reason a number of these papers sparked lively debates.