Stalnaker - Context and Content - New hardback or cased book - X555z

About this Item\n\nThe item is a book hardback or cased book\nThe Author Name is Stalnaker, Robert C.\nThe Title is Context and Content\n\nCondition New\n\nOther Comments\nPages Count - 296. Binding type - Hardcover. \nContent Language - English\nCategory - PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology\nPHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics\nPSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition\n\nProduct Description -\nIn Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected essays: the role that the context in which speech takes place plays in accounting for the way language is used to express thought, and the role of the external environment in determining the contents of our thoughts. Stalnaker argues against the widespread assumption of the priority of linguistic over mental representation, which he suggests has had a distorting influence on our understanding. The first part of t7