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New Essays on the Nature of Propositions
Contributor(s): Hunter, David (Editor), Rattan, Gurpreet (Editor)

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ISBN: 1138858994     ISBN-13: 9781138858992
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $199.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Philosophy | Language
Dewey: 401
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" L (1.00 lbs) 318 pages
 
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These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions.

Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition?

The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

 
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