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Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine's Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language. * A major contribution to the philosophy of language, w available in paperback* Written by one of today's most respected philosophers* Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought* Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are t grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves* Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today's leading philosophersProduct Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd, Wiley-Blackwell (An Imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
ISBN-101405196696
ISBN-139781405196697
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
Publication NameSemantic Relationism
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectLinguistics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy
AuthorKit Fine
SeriesThe Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy Ser.
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication29/07/2009
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Place of PublicationChicester
Spine9mm
Series TitleBlackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
GenreLinguistics
Author BiographyKit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, and specializes in metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic . He is the author of Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985), The Limits of Abstraction (2002) and Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (2005) and the co-author of Worlds, Times and Selves (1977). He has also written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory, in addition to the papers in his central fields of interest.
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