- Uniform Title
- Interperspectival content (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Interperspectival content (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2018958749
- OCLC
- ssj0002292162
- Author
Ludlow, Peter.
- Title
Interperspectival content [electronic resource] / Peter Ludlow.
- Imprint
New York, NY ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Edition
First edition.
- Description
1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) : illustrations.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
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