Semantic Relationism

Kit Fine

Apr 2008 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this eBook

Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language.

• 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 not 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 philosophers

Ratings and reviews

no substance, no insight. he tries to solve some fairly straightforward (and already thoroughly solved) problems relating to cognitive content and, to this end, introduces a clumsy and irrelevant quasi-mathematical apparatus, the net result being bureaucratic squid ink. a logic chopper who is fighting above his weight class.

About the author

Kit 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 Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (2005), and the co-author of Worlds, Times and Selves and Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985). 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.