Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content
Bilgrami, Akeel, Ed.
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Description for Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content
Paperback. A philosophical treatment of intentionality, this book argues for a view of intentional content which is at once Fregean and Kantian in its conception of the relation between the mind and the external world. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
Belief and Meaning is a philosophical treatment of intentionality. It offers an original, logical and convincing account of intentional content which is local and contextual and which takes issues with standard theories of meaning.
Belief and Meaning is a philosophical treatment of intentionality. It offers an original, logical and convincing account of intentional content which is local and contextual and which takes issues with standard theories of meaning.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631196778
SKU
V9780631196778
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99-50
About Bilgrami, Akeel, Ed.
Akeel Bilgrami was educated in Bombay and then went to Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Reviews for Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content
"Bilgrami's fine study penetrates deeply into some of the most lively areas of contemporary philosophy of language and mind. He makes a distinctive and original contribution to the vexed questions of the role of social factors and objective reference in the theory of belief and meaning, and the problem of constructing a unified theory that will integrate the semantic requirements ... Read more