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| Title: | The answering machine paradox |
| Authors: | Gudmundsson, David |
| Supervisors: | Greenough, Patrick |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | The answering machine paradox has relatively recently sparked some debate
regarding Kaplan’s Demonstrative (1977). A popular approach to solve the
answering machine paradox has been to reject Kaplan’s proper context thesis whilst
largely maintaining his framework for indexicals. In this thesis I will firstly present
two new answering machine type cases and argue that the existing solutions to the
answering machine paradox cannot deal with these cases. Then, I will propose a
near-side pragmatic solution to the answering machine paradox that adequately deals
with these new answering machine cases in a way that adheres with our pre-
theoretical intuitions. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3150 |
| Type: | Thesis |
| Publisher: | University of St Andrews |
| Appears in Collections: | Philosophy Theses
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