The nature of meaningfulness: representing, powers, and meaning
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Lanham [u.a.]
Rowman & Littlefield
1999
|
| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in epistemology and cognitive theory
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 325 S. |
| ISBN: | 0847692868 0847692876 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV012959131 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20010215 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 000126s1999 |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 0847692868 |9 0-8476-9286-8 | ||
| 020 | |a 0847692876 |9 0-8476-9287-6 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)41628143 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV012959131 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-29 |a DE-12 |a DE-355 | ||
| 050 | 0 | |a B840 | |
| 082 | 0 | |a 121/.68 |2 21 | |
| 084 | |a CC 4400 |0 (DE-625)17626: |2 rvk | ||
| 084 | |a 5,1 |2 ssgn | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Shope, Robert K. |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a The nature of meaningfulness |b representing, powers, and meaning |c Robert K. Shope |
| 264 | 1 | |a Lanham [u.a.] |b Rowman & Littlefield |c 1999 | |
| 300 | |a XII, 325 S. | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Studies in epistemology and cognitive theory | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Meaning (Philosophy) | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Representation (Philosophy) | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Wissensrepräsentation |0 (DE-588)4049534-6 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Bedeutung |0 (DE-588)4005184-5 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Bedeutung |0 (DE-588)4005184-5 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |a Wissensrepräsentation |0 (DE-588)4049534-6 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m HEBIS Datenaustausch |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008825799&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-008825799 | ||
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1804127652394565632 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | The Nature of Meaningfulness
Representing, Powers, and Meaning
ROBERT K SHOPE
ROWMAN amp; LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Oxford
Contents
Preface xi
Section 1 Representing
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
The Scope of the Investigation 3
The Structure of the Investigation 9
The Method of the Investigation 9
Notes 12
Chapter 2: The Analysis of Representing 17
Representing, Representations, and the State of Representing 17
What-Questions and the Analysis of Representing 20
Epistemic Analyses 21
Causal Analyses 25
A Causal-Epistemic Analysis of Representing 34
A Look Ahead 52
Notes 53
Section 2 Powers
Chapter 3: Are Power Ascriptions Analyzable by Conditionals? 63
Two Ways of Utilizing Conditionals 63
Problems Facing the Analysis of Power or Ability Ascriptions
in Terms of Conditionals 64
Conclusion 71
Notes 71
Chapter 4: Need Power Ascriptions Be Analyzed? 75
The Joke s on Whom? Or: Diagnosing Moliere 75
Are Any Powers Fundamental? 76
Is the Ascription of Powers Scientifically Superfluous? 77
vii
viii Contents
An Example of a Causal Mechanism 78
The Relation of Something s Nature to Its Powers 78
Occasions, Opportunities, and Standing Conditions 81
In Virtue of Something s Nature 82
Powers and Susceptibilities 84
Causal Selection 84
Power Versus Susceptibility 86
Powers for Short 86
Power Ascriptions That Do Not Entail Conditionals 86
Partial Manifestations of Powers 88
Types of Analyses 89
The Identification and Individuation of Powers 90
Conclusion 91
Notes 92
Chapter 5: Conditional Statements and Powers 95
Preliminary Considerations Concerning Powers 95
The Elliptical Entailment Claim Theory of Conditionals 106
Some Technical Preparations 106
A Definition of Truth Conditions of Conditionals 108
Restrictions on Relevant Powers and on the Universe
of Discourse Regarding Generalizations 111
Possible Worlds and What Might Have Been 114
The Relation of Conditionals to Causality and to Statistics; Conditionals
That Sustain Generalizations 117
Occasion-Manifestation Chains and Serving As a Means 120
Notes 122
Chapter 6: Nondeviance of Causal Chains 127
Examples of Deviant Causal Chains 127
A Characterization of Nondeviance 129
Nondeviance in Representing 134
Notes 134
Section 3 Meaning
Chapter 7: Analyzing Meaning 139
Grice s Account of the Meaning Common to Language and Nature 139
Schiffer s Fundamental Statements about Linguistic Meaning 141
An Analysis of Meaning That 142
A Sentence s Meaning That h 144
Understanding Usage and Understanding Meaning 151
The Meaning of Acquiring or Retaining a Propositional Attitude 152
ix Contents
The Meaning of Nondescriptive Sentences and an Analysis of
Being Involved in the Meaning of a Conventional Sign 153
An Analysis of Having a Meaning 154
Sameness of Meaning and the Meaning of Words or Phrases 155
A Pragmatic Rationale for a Unified Analysis of Meaning That 157
Notes 158
Chapter 8: Reasons for Regarding the Analyses as Constitutive 161
The Ability to Explain Important Facts 161
The Ability to Solve Puzzles 167
Conclusion 187
Notes 187
Chapter 9: The Meaning of Meaning 191
The Meaning of the Meaning 191
Meaning to Do Something 194
Multiplying Meaning Beyond Necessity 196
Meaning in an Artwork 198
Meaningfulness in General 204
Notes 205
Chapter 10: Further Implications of the Analyses of Linguistic 209
Meaning
Reference as an Aspect of Meaning 209
Speaker s Meaning and Speaker s Reference 210
Contextual Implications as Aspects of Meaning 212
Conclusion 215
Notes 215
Appendix A: Backgrounds for Applications of the Analysis
of Representing 217
Note 219
Appendix B: Limitations of Naturalistic Accounts of Representing 22 i
and Meaning
Bases for Representing and Cummins on the Computational
Theory of Cognition 222
Cummins on the Picture Theory of Represention 227
How Cognitive Science Might Regard Representing
as Explaining Behavior 238
Stampe on Dretske and Channel Conditions 240
Dretske s Analyses of Natural and Nonnatural Meaning 242
Dretske on Functioning to Indicate 252
x Contents
Fodor on the Meanings of Kind-Terms and of Mental Symbols,
and on a Sufficient Condition of Being about Something 259
Notes 264
Appendix C: Further Issues Concerning Representing 271
Representing As 271
Representations 272
Lloyd s Naturalistic Account of Representation and Being
about Something 274
Re-Presenting 276
Some Possible Objections 276
Notes 281
Appendix D: Modalities, Powers, and Nondeviant Causal Chains 283
Can Possession of a Power Be Analyzed by Means of Modalities? 283
Toward a Powers Account of Modality 288
Is a Description of the Form Mis a Manifestation of Power P and
O Is an Occasion for That Manifestation a Modal Description? 295
Characterizing Nondeviance without Modal and Conditional
Terminology 297
The Relation of Nondeviance to Efficient Causes and to Flukes 302
Notes 302
References 309
Index 317
About the Author 327
|
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Shope, Robert K. |
| author_facet | Shope, Robert K. |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Shope, Robert K. |
| author_variant | r k s rk rks |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV012959131 |
| callnumber-first | B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion |
| callnumber-label | B840 |
| callnumber-raw | B840 |
| callnumber-search | B840 |
| callnumber-sort | B 3840 |
| callnumber-subject | B - Philosophy |
| classification_rvk | CC 4400 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)41628143 (DE-599)BVBBV012959131 |
| dewey-full | 121/.68 |
| dewey-hundreds | 100 - Philosophy & psychology |
| dewey-ones | 121 - Epistemology (Theory of knowledge) |
| dewey-raw | 121/.68 |
| dewey-search | 121/.68 |
| dewey-sort | 3121 268 |
| dewey-tens | 120 - Epistemology, causation, humankind |
| discipline | Philosophie |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>01566nam a2200421 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV012959131</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20010215 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">000126s1999 |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">0847692868</subfield><subfield code="9">0-8476-9286-8</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">0847692876</subfield><subfield code="9">0-8476-9287-6</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)41628143</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV012959131</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakwb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-29</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-355</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">B840</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">121/.68</subfield><subfield code="2">21</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">CC 4400</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)17626:</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">5,1</subfield><subfield code="2">ssgn</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Shope, Robert K.</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">The nature of meaningfulness</subfield><subfield code="b">representing, powers, and meaning</subfield><subfield code="c">Robert K. Shope</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Lanham [u.a.]</subfield><subfield code="b">Rowman & Littlefield</subfield><subfield code="c">1999</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">XII, 325 S.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Studies in epistemology and cognitive theory</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Meaning (Philosophy)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Representation (Philosophy)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Wissensrepräsentation</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4049534-6</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Bedeutung</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4005184-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Bedeutung</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4005184-5</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Wissensrepräsentation</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4049534-6</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">HEBIS Datenaustausch</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008825799&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-008825799</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV012959131 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-09T18:36:45Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 0847692868 0847692876 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-008825799 |
| oclc_num | 41628143 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-29 DE-12 DE-355 DE-BY-UBR |
| owner_facet | DE-29 DE-12 DE-355 DE-BY-UBR |
| physical | XII, 325 S. |
| publishDate | 1999 |
| publishDateSearch | 1999 |
| publishDateSort | 1999 |
| publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| record_format | marc |
| series2 | Studies in epistemology and cognitive theory |
| spelling | Shope, Robert K. Verfasser aut The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning Robert K. Shope Lanham [u.a.] Rowman & Littlefield 1999 XII, 325 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Studies in epistemology and cognitive theory Meaning (Philosophy) Representation (Philosophy) Wissensrepräsentation (DE-588)4049534-6 gnd rswk-swf Bedeutung (DE-588)4005184-5 gnd rswk-swf Bedeutung (DE-588)4005184-5 s Wissensrepräsentation (DE-588)4049534-6 s DE-604 HEBIS Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008825799&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Shope, Robert K. The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning Meaning (Philosophy) Representation (Philosophy) Wissensrepräsentation (DE-588)4049534-6 gnd Bedeutung (DE-588)4005184-5 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)4049534-6 (DE-588)4005184-5 |
| title | The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning |
| title_auth | The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning |
| title_exact_search | The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning |
| title_full | The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning Robert K. Shope |
| title_fullStr | The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning Robert K. Shope |
| title_full_unstemmed | The nature of meaningfulness representing, powers, and meaning Robert K. Shope |
| title_short | The nature of meaningfulness |
| title_sort | the nature of meaningfulness representing powers and meaning |
| title_sub | representing, powers, and meaning |
| topic | Meaning (Philosophy) Representation (Philosophy) Wissensrepräsentation (DE-588)4049534-6 gnd Bedeutung (DE-588)4005184-5 gnd |
| topic_facet | Meaning (Philosophy) Representation (Philosophy) Wissensrepräsentation Bedeutung |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008825799&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT shoperobertk thenatureofmeaningfulnessrepresentingpowersandmeaning |