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Philosophical essays what it means and how we use it / by Soames, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Semantics and pragmatics -- Naming and asserting -- The gap between meaning and assertion : why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean -- Drawing the line between meaning and implicaturem and relating both to assertion -- Pt. 4. …”
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Content and modality themes from the philosophy of Robert Stalnaker /

Table of Contents: “…. -- 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.…”
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Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science / by Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-

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Storytelling : The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust / by Gasche, Rodolphe

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Our Limits Transgressed : Environmental Political Thought in America / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

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