Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity / / ed. by Francois Recanati, Isidora Stojanovic, Neftali Villanueva.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Brynjarsdóttir, Eyja M.,; Clapp, Lenny,; Etxeberria, Urtzi,; Gauker, Christopher,; Giannakidou, Anastasia,; Gillon, Brendan,; Higginbotham, James,; Korta, Kepa,; Merchant, Jason,; Perry, John,; Smith, Barry C.,; Torrengo, Giuliano,; Vicente, Agustín,; Zeman, Dan,
• HerausgeberIn: Recanati, Francois,; Stojanovic, Isidora,; Villanueva, Neftali,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)

This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introdu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Implicit content (1): philosophical perspectives
• Unarticulated tension
• What is said
• Context dependency in thought
• 2. Implicit content (2): linguistic perspectives
• Contextual domain restriction and the definite determiner
• The model theory for words with context-sensitive implicit arguments
• Three types of ellipsis
• 3. Relativism, knowledge ascriptions, and predicates of personal taste
• Relativism, disagreement and predicates of personal taste
• Knowledge attributions and relevant epistemic standards
• 4. Perspectival shifts
• On words and thoughts about oneself
• Indirect discourse, relativism, and contexts that point to other contexts
• 5. Perspectival facts
• Is relativity a requirement for mind-dependence?
• Perspectival truth and perspectival realism
• Backmatter