CONTENT AND MODALITY: THEMES FROM THE PHILOSOPHY OF ROBERT STALNAKER; ED. BY JUDITH THOMSON

Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in which Stalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed. Contributors: Richard Heck, Frank Jackson, William Lycan, Vann McGee, John Perry, Paul Pietroski, Sydney Shoemaker, Scott Soames, Daniel Stoljar, Timothy Williamson, and Stephen Yablo. Actors And Zombies / Daniel Stoljar -- The Frege-schlick View / Sydney Shoemaker -- Character Before Content / Paul M. Pietroski -- Idiolects / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- There Are Many Things / Vann Mcgee -- Stalnaker On The Interaction Of Modality With Quantification And Identity / Timothy Williamson -- Conditional-assertion Theories Of Conditionals / William G. Lycan -- Non-catastrophic Presupposition Failure / Stephen Yablo -- The Story Of 'fred' / Frank Jackson -- Stalnaker And Indexical Belief / John Perry -- Understanding Assertion / Scott Soames -- Responses / Robert Stalnaker. Edited By Judith Thomson And Alex Byrne. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [296]-300) And Index. Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in which. Stalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed. - ;Eleven distinguished 1. Much of contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by the intersection of three topics: physicalism, the conceivability argument, and the necessary a posteriori.