Context and Communication by Cappelen, Herman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Contents Detailed Contents Acknowledgment Introduction

Part I. Context Sensitivity: Variability vs. Stability

1. Contextual Variability

1.1 The Basic Cases: Variability and Stability 1.2 Context Sensitivity Beyond the Basic Set 1.3 Radical Contextualism_ The View that Every Word is Context Sensitive Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

2. Stability Across Contexts

2.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 2.2 Three Arguments for Stability Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

3. Some Strategies for Reconciling Stability and Variability

Part II. Theories of Context Sensitivity

4. What is a Theory of Meaning?

4.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 4.2 What Are We Trying to Do with a Theory Of Meaning? 4.3 What is Said and Truth Conditions 4.4 Possible Worlds 4.5 Compositionality 4.6 Truth and Consequences 4.7 Rigidity 4.8 Semantics and Pragmatics Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

5. Character and Content

5.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 5.2 Kaplanian Theory of Meaning 5.3 Philosophical Payoffs of the Character–Content Distinction 5.4 Monsters and Rigidity Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

6. Indexed Truth Accounts: An Alternative to Kaplan

6.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 6.2 Kaplan, Content, and the Operator Argument 6.3 Indexed Truth Theories 6.4 Two Problems for Indexed Truth Accounts

7. The Problem of Rigidity: Double Indexing and Monsters

7.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 7.2 Fixing the Problem of Rigidity with Double Indexing 7.3 Character, Content, and Double Indexing 7.4 Are Monsters Evidence for Double Indexing? Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

8. The Problem of Same-Saying: Two Strategies

8.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 8.2 Lewis’ Same-Saying Skepticism 8.3 Stalnaker and Contextual Subjectivism 8.4 Stalnaker, Updates, and Diagonals 8.5 Stalnaker and Dynamic Pragmatics 8.6 Final Thoughts on Formal Theorizing Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

Part III. Contexts: What They Are and How We Create Them

9. What are Contexts?

9.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 9.2 Demonstratives and Context 9.3 Improper Contexts Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

10. More on Contextual Ingredients

10.1 Where We Are and the Plan for This Chapter 10.2 Gradable Adjectives 10.3 Epistemic ‘Mights’ 10.4 You: Audience Sensitivity? 10.5 Presupposition Comprehension Questions Exploratory Questions

11. How Speech Creates Contexts: Negotiation and Accommodation

Bibliography Index