Aboutness / / Stephen Yablo.

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been mad...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • How to Read This Book
  • Introduction
  • 1. I Wasn't Talking about That
  • 2. Varieties of Aboutness
  • 3. Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics
  • 4. A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking
  • 5. The Truth and Something But the Truth
  • 6. Confirmation and Verisimilitude
  • 7. Knowing That and Knowing About
  • 8. Extrapolation and Its Limits
  • 9. Going On in the Same Way
  • 10. Pretense and Presupposition
  • 11. The Missing Premise
  • 12. What Is Said
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index