Assertion and Conditionals
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- Author: Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: August 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521071291
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This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.
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- Date Published: August 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521071291
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 225 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Cartesianism, behaviourism and the philosophical context
Part I. Belief:
2. A theory of the mind
3. Belief and decision
4. Computation
5. Truth conditions
Part II. Meaning:
6. Realism and truth-theory
7. Assertion
Part III. Conditionals:
8. Indicative conditionals
9. Truth and triviality
10. Logic without truth
11. Generalising the probabilistic semantics of conditionals.
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