Occasion-Sensitivity
Selected Essays
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 February 2008
- ISBN 9780199230334
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 242x164x24 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth conditions. The implications of this view are intriguing.
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Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. The key idea is 'occasion-sensitivity': what it is for words to express a given concept is for them to be apt for contributing to any of many different conditions of correctness (notably truth conditions). Since words mean what they do by expressing a given concept, it follows that meaning does not determine truth conditions. This view ties thoughts less tightly to the linguistic forms which express them than traditional views of the matter, and in two directions: a given linguistic form, meaning fixed, may express an indefinite variety of thoughts; one thought can be expressed in an indefinite number of syntactically and semantically distinct ways. Travis highlights the importance of this view for linguistic theory, and shows how it gives new form to a variety of traditional philosophical problems.
Readers of various philosophical persuasions should welcome Travis' carefully crafted essays as illuminating illustrations of the strengths and weaknesses of twentieth-century analytical philosophy.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Occasion Sensitivity
On What Is Strictly Speaking True
Annals of Analysis
Meaning's Role in Truth
Pragmatics
Sublunary Intuitionism
Insensitive Semantics
Aristotle's Condition
Part II: Applications
Are Belief Ascriptions Opaque?
Vagueness, Observation and Sorites
Attitudes as States
On Concepts of Objects
On Constraints of Generality
A Sense of Occasion
