《Assertion and Conditionals》是2008年8月28日Cambridge University Press出版的圖書，作者是AnthonyAppiah（安東尼·阿皮亞）。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Assertion and Conditionals
- 作者：AnthonyAppiah（安東尼·阿皮亞）
- 出版社：Cambridge University Press
- ISBN：9780521071291
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.
作者簡介
Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He is currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
