Thought, Language, and Ontology Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Cast
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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES VOLUME 76
Founded by Wilfrid S. Sellars and Keith Lehrer
Editor Keith Lehrer, University ofArizona, Tucson
Associate Editor Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University, Tempe
Board of Consulting Editors Lynne Rudder Baker, University ofMassachusetts at Amherst Radu Bogdan, Tulane University, New Orleans Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan Denise Meyerson, University of Cape Town Fran~ois Recanati, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Stuart Silvers, Clemson University Nicholas D. Smith, Michigan State University
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
THOUGHT, LANGUAGE, AND ONTOLOGY Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castafieda
Edited by
FRANCESCO ORILIA Universitd di Macerata. Italy and
WILLIAM J. RAPAPORT Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science. State University ofNew York at Buffalo. Buffalo. New York. U.S.A.
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-94-010-6122-3
ISBN 978-94-011-5052-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-5052-1
Printed on acid-free paper
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Contents I
PREFACE
Thought, Language, and Ontology: An Introduction Francesco Orilia and William J. Rapaport Acknowledgments List of Contributors
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GUISE THEORY AND OTHER ONTOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS
1 The Grammar of Belief Michael McKinsey 2 Actualism and Quantification James E. Tomberlin
vii ix xxiii xxv 1 3
25
3 Guise Theory, Property Theory, and Castaneda's Philosophical Methodology Francesco Orilia
39
4 Russell's Intensional Logic of Propositions: A Resurrection of Logicism? Gregory Landini
61
5 In Defence of the Adverbial Theory of Experience Michael Pendlebury
95
6 Existentialist Themes Lawrence H. Powers
107
7 On the Metaphysical Distinction between Processes and Events Kathleen Gill
135
Thought, Language, and Ontology 8 Possible Worlds without Possibilia Donald Nute
153
9 A Role for Conceptual Role Semantics J. Christopher Maloney
169
III INDICATORS AND QUASI· INDICATORS
181
lOOn Depicting Indexical Reference Tomis Kapitan
183
11 She*: Pragmatically Imparted or Semantically Encoded? Eros Corazza
217
12 Quasi·Indexicais and Knowledge Reports William J. Rapaport, Stuart C. Shapiro, and Janyce M. Wiebe
235
IV ONTOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
295
13 Relations in Plato's Phaedo Pri yedarshi Jetli
297
14 Leibniz's Spark of Kant's Great Light: An Application of Castaneda's Darwinian Approach to the History of Philosophy Ricardo J. Gomez
313
15 Peirce's Evolutionary Idea of Evolution Ana H. Maro
