The essential contextual
Standard accounts of self-locating or essentially indexical knowledge and belief (such as that of David Lewis) make it difficult to understand the communication of self-locating information. But even the amnesiacs who populate the examples in the literature on this issue can talk with others about w...
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| description | Standard accounts of self-locating or essentially indexical knowledge and belief (such as that of David Lewis) make it difficult to understand the communication of self-locating information. But even the amnesiacs who populate the examples in the literature on this issue can talk with others about who they are or might be, and a general account of discourse should be able to account for this kind of communicative exchange. This chapter proposes a modification of Lewis's " centered-worlds" representations of self-locating attitudes that provides an account of common ground (the presumed common knowledge of speakers in a conversation) that is general enough to provide a context for the communication of information about who and where we are. The chapter concludes with an analysis, using the framework developed, of a notorious puzzle case that involves indexical communication: Mark Richard's phone booth example. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1258482022-10-03T09:30:05Z The essential contextual Stalnaker, Robert Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Standard accounts of self-locating or essentially indexical knowledge and belief (such as that of David Lewis) make it difficult to understand the communication of self-locating information. But even the amnesiacs who populate the examples in the literature on this issue can talk with others about who they are or might be, and a general account of discourse should be able to account for this kind of communicative exchange. This chapter proposes a modification of Lewis's " centered-worlds" representations of self-locating attitudes that provides an account of common ground (the presumed common knowledge of speakers in a conversation) that is general enough to provide a context for the communication of information about who and where we are. The chapter concludes with an analysis, using the framework developed, of a notorious puzzle case that involves indexical communication: Mark Richard's phone booth example. 2020-06-17T18:55:53Z 2020-06-17T18:55:53Z 2011 2019-11-06T14:07:34Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9780199573004 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125848 Stalnaker, Robert, "The essential contextual." In Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen, eds., Assertion: New Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) doi 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573004.003.0006 ©2011 Author(s) en 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573004.003.0006 Assertion: New Philosophical Essays Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press other univ website |
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