【2015新书】Propositional Content
Book 图书名称:【2014新书】Propositional Content
Author 作者:Peter Hanks
Publisher 出版社:Oxford University Press
Page 页数:216
Publishing Date 出版时间:Aug 4, 2015
Language 语言:English
Size 大小:1 MB
Format 格式:pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0199684898, 9780199684892
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
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.