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Title Situating semantics [electronic resource] : essays on the philosophy of John Perry / edited by Michael O'Rourke and Corey Washington.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

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Description vi, 593 p.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Bibliography of John Perry's publications: p.[577]-585).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Situating semantics: an overview of the philosophy of John Perry -- Prospects for a naturalization of practical reason: instrumentalism and the normative authority of desire -- Mathematical objects and identity -- Substitution, identity, and the subject-predicate structure -- Relativized propositions -- Understanding temporal indexicals -- Is there a problem of the essential indexical? -- The myth of unarticulated constituents -- Misplaced modification and the illusion of opacity -- On location -- Reflections on Reference and reflexivity -- Thinking the unthinkable: an excursion into Z-land -- Thinking about qualia -- A refutation of qualia-physicalism -- Situating semantics: a response.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Perry, John, 1943-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-
Washington, Corey.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262151184 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262151189 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262651110 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262651114 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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