Research Catalog

Title

Interperspectival content / Peter Ludlow.

Author

Ludlow, Peter

Publication

• New York, NY ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

ix, 247 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible. Peter Ludlow argues that perspectival content, or what some call indexical content, is ineliminable and ubiquitous, running through our accounts of human action and emotions, perception, normative behaviour, and even our theories of computation and information. While such content may be ineliminable, it also gives rise to philosophical puzzles - particularly those involving reporting these contents from different perspectival positions. Such puzzles have led some to try and abandon perspectival content, and others to despair of communication across diverse perspectival positions. Ludlow argues that communication across diverse perspectival positions is not only possible, but routine, and develops a theory of interperspectival content and cognitive dynamics to explain how it is accomplished.

Subject

• Perspective (Linguistics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.

Contents

Why we need Interperspectival content -- Tense and interperspectival content -- Tense -- Perspectival position and interperspectival content -- The varieties of perspectivalism -- Sloppy thinking? -- Communication using interperspectival contents -- Sense and interperspectival content -- The cognitive dynamics of attitude attribution -- Microlanguages and local theories -- The cognitive dynamics of indexicals and interperspectival contents -- Rip van Winkle -- Some alternative accounts of interperspectival content -- Token indexical theories -- Tense as a mere psychological content -- Lewis on the De Se -- Kaplanian character and its deployment -- Computation, information, and interperspectival content -- Computational states and interperspectival content -- Information and iterperspectival content -- A-series/B-series compatibilism -- McTaggart's objection -- The problem of the moving now -- An interlude on the dynamic lexicon -- How A-series/B-series compatibilism works -- Compatibilism and the flow of time --Some additional metaphysical questions -- The truth-makers problem -- Humean supervenience -- Interperspectival content and physical theory -- The alleged relativistic problem for the tenser -- On the alleged innocence of the earlier-than/later-than relation -- The need for interperspectival content in scientific practice -- The need for interperspectival content in scientific theory --Conclusion -- Appendix: presentism.

Call Number

JFD 19-2933

ISBN

• 0198823797
• 9780198823797

OCLC

1048436628

Author

Ludlow, Peter, author.

Title

Interperspectival content / Peter Ludlow.

Publisher

New York, NY ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2933