Anthony Appiah

Assertion and Conditionals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780521071291
• ISBN-10: 0521071291
• Artikelnr.: 24725880

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cartesianism, behaviourism and the philosophical context
Part I. Belief: 2. A theory of the mind
3. Belief and decision
4. Computation
5. Truth conditions
Part II. Meaning: 6. Realism and truth-theory
7. Assertion
Part III. Conditionals: 8. Indicative conditionals
9. Truth and triviality
10. Logic without truth
11. Generalising the probabilistic semantics of conditionals.