Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by the foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.
- Original essays by the foremost thinkers and academics of philosophy discussing the philosophy of language and mind
- Some of the main topics include demonstratives and anaphora, meaning and naming, belief and privileged access, modality, concepts and time, and paradox
Table of Contents:
Part I: Demonstratives and Anaphora:. 1. Competence with Demonstratives: James Higginbotham (University of Southern California).
2. Does Syntax Reveal Semantics? A Case Study of Complex Demonstratives: Kent Johnson (University of California, Irvine) and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University).
3. Reference and Anaphora: R.M. Sainsbury (King's College, London).
Part II: Meaning and Naming:.
4. Giorgione Was So-Called Because of His Name: Kent Bach (San Fransisco State University).
5. Truth-Conditional Pragmatics: Anne L. Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina).
6. On Sense and Intention: David Chalmers (University of Arizona).
7. Do Adjectives Conform to Compositionality?: Marga Reimer (University of Arizona).
Part III: Belief and Privileged Access.
8. Forms of Externalism and Privileged Access: Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University).
9. De Re and De Dicto: Against the Conventional Wisdom: Kenneth A. Taylor (Stanford University).
10. The Aim of Belief: Ralph Wedgwood (Merton College, Oxford).
Part IV: Modality, Concepts, and Time:.
11. The Source of Necessity: Robert Hale (University of Glasgow).
12. Modality and What is Said: Jason Stanley (University of Michigan).
13. The Emperor's New Concepts: Neil Tennant (Ohio State University).
14. Time, Idealism, and the Identity of Indiscernibles: James Van Cleve (James Van Cleve).
Part V: Paradox:.
15. The Resolution of Russell's Paradox in Principia Mathematica: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta).
16. Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox: Kirk Ludwig and Greg Ray (Both University of Florida).