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Author(s): Peter Hanks
ISBN(s): 9780199684892, 0199684898
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.13 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0199684898

ISBN 13: 978-0199684892

Author: Peter Hanks 

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place,explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
 

Table of contents: 

1. Three Pictures of Content

1.1. The Fregean Picture

1.2. An Alternative to the Fregean Picture

1.3. Soames’s Picture

2. The Problem of the Unity of the Proposition

2.1. Going Primitive

2.2. Frege on the Composition of Thoughts

2.3. Russell on True and False Propositions

2.4. King on Propositional Unity

3. Predication and Unity

3.1. Acts of Predication

3.2. Tokens, Types, and Truth Conditions

3.3. Relational Propositions

3.4. Quantified Propositions

4. Cancellation and the Content-Force Distinction

4.1. Cancellation Contexts

4.2. Truth, Negation, Target-shifting, and Anti-predication

4.3. Conjunction and Disjunction

4.4. Supposition and Hypothesis

5. Proper Names and Types of Reference Acts

5.1. Rigidity

5.2. Semantic Reference Types

5.3. Paderewski and Ideal Conditions

5.4. Semantic Competence with Names

5.5. Frege’s Puzzle About Identity

5.6. Names and Translation

6. Empty Names

6.1. Empty Names and Semantic Reference Types

6.2. Existence and Target-shifting

6.3. Problems and Objections

7. Propositional Attitude Reports

7.1. That-clauses and Target-shifting

7.2. Standard and Super-standard Contexts

7.3. Extra Super-standard Contexts and Designation Types

7.4. Sub-standard Contexts and the Paderewski Puzzle

7.5. Propositional Attitude Relations

7.6. Denial

8. First-person Propositions

8.1. Context Sensitive Reference Acts

8.2. De Se References

8.3. First-person Propositions and Communication

8.4. From Se Reports

9. Asking and Ordering

9.1. Asking

9.2. Wh-questions

9.3. Ordering

9.4. Non-declaratives in Attitude Reports

9.5. Declarations and Other Non-propositional Speech Acts

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