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Thought, Language, and Ontology

Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 76)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Guise Theory and Other Ontological Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Grammar of Belief

      • Michael. McKinsey
      Pages 3-24
    3. Actualism and Quantification

      • James. E. Tomberlin
      Pages 25-37
    4. In Defence of the Adverbial Theory of Experience

      • Michael. Pendlebury
      Pages 95-106
    5. Existentialist Themes

      • Lawrence. H. Powers
      Pages 107-134
    6. Possible Worlds without Possibilia

      • Donald. Nute
      Pages 153-167
    7. A Role for Conceptual Role Semantics

      • J. Christopher Maloney
      Pages 169-180
  3. Indicators and Quasi-Indicators

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. On Depicting Indexical Reference

      • Tomis. Kapitan
      Pages 183-215
    3. Quasi-Indexicals and Knowledge Reports

      • William. J. Rapaport, Stuart. C. Shapiro, Janyce. M. Wiebe
      Pages 235-294
  4. Ontology and the History of Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
    2. Relations in Plato’s Phaedo

      • Priyedarshi. Jetli
      Pages 297-311
    3. Peirce’s Evolutionary Idea of Evolution

      • Ana. H. Marostica
      Pages 321-329
  5. Appendix

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 331-331

Editors and Affiliations

  • Università di Macerata, Italy

    Francesco Orilia

  • Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    William J. Rapaport

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Thought, Language, and Ontology

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda

  • Editors: Francesco Orilia, William J. Rapaport

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5052-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5197-9Published: 31 July 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6122-3Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5052-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 388

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Ontology, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Phenomenology

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