Thought, reference, and experience
Subtitle: themes from the philosophy of Gareth Evans
By: edited by José Luis Bermúdez
Contributors: Bermúdez, José Luis
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Evans, Gareth; Philosophy of mind; Language and languages -- Philosophy
Description: A collection of important new chapters on topics at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophical logic. The starting-point for the chapters is the work of the British philosopher Gareth Evans before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of 34. Evans's work on reference and singular thought transformed the Fregean approach to the philosophy of thought and language, showing how seemingly technical issues in philosophical semantics are inextricably linked to fundamental questions about the structure of our thinking about ourselves and about the world. The chapters explore different aspects of Evans's philosophical legacy, showing its importance to central areas in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-320) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / José Luis Bermúdez; title: Evans's Frege / John McDowell; title: Names in free logical truth theory / Mark Sainsbury; title: Plural terms : another variety of reference? / Ian Rumfitt; title: Abandoning coreference / Ken Safir; title: Evans and the sense of "I" / José Luis Bermúdez; title: Information processing, phenomenal consciousness, and Molyneux's question / John Campbell; title: "Another I" : representing conscious states, perception, and others / Christopher Peacocke; title: Space and objective experience / Quassim Cassam; title: Identity, vagueness, and modality / E.J. Lowe