Robert C. Stalnaker
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199645169
- eISBN:
- 9780191761379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199645169.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
The main constructive task of this chapter is to provide a way of modeling self-locating or essentially indexical information in a way that allows for the communication of this kind of information, ...
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The main constructive task of this chapter is to provide a way of modeling self-locating or essentially indexical information in a way that allows for the communication of this kind of information, and for a representation of common ground that includes information about where and when in the world the participants in a conversation locate themselves and each other. The model uses the resources introduced in David Lewis’s theory of self-locating belief, which models belief with centered worlds, but modifies his account in a way that allows for the explanation of the interaction of the self-locating attitudes of different agents, and of the change of propositional attitudes over time.Less
The main constructive task of this chapter is to provide a way of modeling self-locating or essentially indexical information in a way that allows for the communication of this kind of information, and for a representation of common ground that includes information about where and when in the world the participants in a conversation locate themselves and each other. The model uses the resources introduced in David Lewis’s theory of self-locating belief, which models belief with centered worlds, but modifies his account in a way that allows for the explanation of the interaction of the self-locating attitudes of different agents, and of the change of propositional attitudes over time.
