Background
Perry, John Richard was born on January 16, 1943 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Ralph Robert and Ann (Roscow) Perry.
( No word in English is shorter than the word I.' And yet...)
No word in English is shorter than the word I.' And yet no word is more important in philosophy. When Descartes said I think therefore I am' he produced something that was both about himself and a universal formula. The word I' is called an indexical' because its meaning always depends on who says it. Other examples of indexicals are you,' here,' this' and now.' John Perry discusses how these kinds of words work, and why they express important philosophical thoughts. He shows that indexicals pose a challenge to traditional assumptions about language and thought. Over the years a number of these papers, now included in this book, have sparked lively debates and have been influential in philosophy, linguistics and other areas of cognitive science. With seven new papers, including the previously unpublished What Are Indexicals?,' the present volume expands on an earlier version of this book published in the early nineties. Also included are the well-known papers Frege on Demonstratives,' Cognitive Significance and New Theories of Reference,' Evading the Slingshot,' The Prince and the Phone booth' (coauthored with Mark Crimmins), Fodor on Psychological Explanations' (coauthored with David Israel), and related papers on situation semantics, direct reference, and the structure of belief. This book also includes afterwords written by the author that discuss responses to his work by Gareth Evans, Robert Stalnaker, Barbara Partee, Howard Wettstein and others.
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In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of 'meaning', a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians. Meaning does not exist solely within words and sentences but resides largely in the situation and the attitudes brought to it by those involved. The authors present an unusually lucid treatment of important innovations in the field of natural semantics, contending that the standard view of logic (as derived from Frege, Russell, and work in mathematics and logic) is inappropriate for many of the uses to which it has been put by scholars. In Situations and Attitudes Barwise and Perry provide the basics of a realistic model-theoretic semantics of natural language, explain the main ideas of the theory, and contrast them with those of competing theories.
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Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination. --David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College
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Perry, John Richard was born on January 16, 1943 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Son of Ralph Robert and Ann (Roscow) Perry.
Bachelor, Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1968; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Doane College, 1982.
Assistant professor philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968-1972; visiting assistant professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971-1972; associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1972-1974; associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1974-1977; professor, Stanford University, 1977-1985; Henry Waldgrave Stuart professor, Stanford University, since 1985; department chairman philosophy, Stanford University, 1976-1982, 90-91; director center study language and information, Stanford University, 1985-1986, 93-; resident fellow Soto House, Stanford University, 1985-1991.
(In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the sl...)
( Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic st...)
( No word in English is shorter than the word I.' And yet...)
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President Santa Monica Democratic Club, California, 1972-1974. Member American Philosophical Association (Vice-President Pacific division 1992-1993, president 1993-1994).
Married Louise Elizabeth French, Mar.31, 1962. Children: James Merton, Sarah Louise, Joseph Glenn.