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Aboutness (Paperback)
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Aboutness (Paperback)
Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
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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 made, in library science and
information theory, to operationalize the notion. But it has played
no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising;
sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is
the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of
subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning
as truth-conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in
which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of
selection--about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject
matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how
matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. Stephen Yablo
maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but
its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out
logical space according to its changing ways of being true or
false. The notion of content that results--directed content--is
brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including
ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content,
and philosophical methodology. Written by one of today's leading
philosophers, Aboutness represents a major advance in semantics and
the philosophy of language.
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