Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever

Puzzles of Reference

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reference is a central topic in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, and related areas of philosophy and linguistics. This textbook offers an up-to-date introduction to key debates about reference. While comprehensive in approach, it is written for students and does not assume any prior training in philosophy of language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780198799849
• ISBN-10: 0198799845
• Artikelnr.: 52820359

Autorenporträt

Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Research Director at CSMN (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of six books and many papers. Josh Dever is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and a professorial fellow at the Arche research centre at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of language and logic, and the co-author with Herman Cappelen of The Inessential Indexical and Context and Communication. He is also an associate editor of Semantics and Pragmatics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction to Kripkeanism and the Rejection of Fregeanism
2: A Puzzle about Belief, Reference, and Agency
3: A Puzzle About Referring To What Isn't There
4: The Puzzle of Essential Indexicality
5: Reference Magnetism and a Puzzle About Reference Determination
6: A Puzzle About Naming Arbitrarily
7: Predicativism: The Puzzle of 'Every Alfred'
8: Plural Reference: The Puzzle of 'John and Paul and George and Ringo'
9: A Puzzle about Intuitions and Methodology
10: The End of Reference?