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    Propositional Content by Hanks, Peter;

    Series: Context & Content;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 4 June 2015

    • ISBN 9780199684892
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages238 pages
    • Size 219x143x19 mm
    • Weight 416 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content, according to which the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. He explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

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    Long description:

    Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place,explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    Three pictures of content
    The problem of the unity of the proposition
    Predication and unity
    Cancellation and the content-force distinction
    Proper names and types of reference acts
    Empty names
    Propositional attitude reports
    First-person propositions
    Asking and ordering
    Conclusion
    References
    Index

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