{"product_id":"insensitive-semantics-isbn-9781405126755","title":"Insensitive Semantics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsensitive Semantics\u003c\/i\u003e is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDefends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConfronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: From Moderate to Radical Contextualism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Exegesis: The Methodology of Contextualism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Refutation of Radical Contextualism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails Context Sensitivity Tests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Objection to Radical Contextualism (II):Makes Communication Impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): Internal Inconsistencies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Semantic Minimalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Semantics and Metaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Semantics and Psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Speech Act Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  “This book is an ingenious defense of two positions not widely thought to be compatible: truth-conditional semantics and semantic minimalism. Cappelen and Lepore’s highly controversial views are already, and will continue to be, at the center of inquiry into the nature of linguistic communication.” \u003ci\u003eJason Stanley, University of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Cappelen and Lepore have performed a singular service in bringing together the threads of the contextualist debate, and in formulating a minimalist alternative to some current trends.” \u003ci\u003eJames Higginbotham, University of Southern California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is a pleasingly spare yet instructively sophisticated account of how Davidsonians can accommodate the massive context sensitivity of language use. Good stuff.” \u003ci\u003ePaul Pietroski, University of Maryland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is a book of considerable importance, which deals with a topic currently at the center of research in the philosophy of language. As a result, \u003ci\u003eInsensitive Semantics\u003c\/i\u003e has been and will continue to be widely discussed …This book pushes the discussion of context-sensitivity forward in new and useful directions. Read it and learn from it.” \u003ci\u003eJournal of Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eHerman Cappelen\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the University of Oslo. He has published extensively in philosophy of language and mind, including articles in \u003ci\u003eNoûs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMind \u0026amp; Language\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnalysis\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSynthese\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnie Lepore\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eMeaning and Argument\u003c\/i\u003e (revised edition, Blackwell, 2003) and, with Jerry Fodor, of \u003ci\u003eHolism\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1991). He is editor of \u003ci\u003eTruth and Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1989), and co-editor, with Zenon Pylyshyn, of \u003ci\u003eWhat is Cognitive Science\u003c\/i\u003e? (Blackwell, 1999), as well as general editor of the Blackwell series \u003ci\u003ePhilosophers and Their Critics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Since the end of the nineteenth century, philosophy of language has been plagued by an extensive and notoriously confusing literature on how to draw the distinction between semantic and non-semantic content. This debate, at its deepest level, is about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsensitive Semantics\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about this debate, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. To this end, the authors defend a combination of two views: \u003ci\u003esemantic minimalism\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003espeech act pluralism\u003c\/i\u003e. If these views are right, then many philosophers and linguists are guilty of some profound mistakes, with wide-ranging implications for philosophy of language but also epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and other branches of pilosophy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989430976741,"sku":"NP9781405126755","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405126755.jpg?v=1761784074","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/insensitive-semantics-isbn-9781405126755","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}