Introduction
Part I: Context Sensitivity: Variability vs. Stability
1: Contextual Variability
2: Stability Across Contexts
3: Some Strategies for Reconciling Stability and Variability
Part II: Theories of Context Sensitivity
4: What is a Theory of Meaning?
5: Character and Content
6: Indexed Truth Accounts: An Alternative to Kaplan
7: The Problem of Rigidity: Double-Indexing and Monsters
8: The Problem of Samesaying: Two Strategies
Part III: contexts: what they are and how we create them
9: What Are Contexts?
10: More on Contextual Ingredients
11: How speech creates contexts: negotiation and accommodation
Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of
Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Research Director at CSMN (in Oslo),
and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of six books
and many papers. Josh Dever is a professor of philosophy at the
University of Texas at Austin and a professorial fellow at the
Arche research centre at the University of St Andrews. He is the
author of many papers in philosophy of language and logic, and the
co-author
with Herman Cappelen of The Inessential Indexical. He is also an
associate editor of Semantics and Pragmatics.
Cappelen and Dever offer a clear, sustained treatment of one area
in the contemporary philosophy of language, namely, the
interrelation of linguistic meaning, truth, and the multiplicity of
contexts in which language occurs ... the volume is a lively and
accessible introductionand beyondto context and communication ...
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through
faculty.
*D.B. Boersema , CHOICE*
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