Referential mechanics: direct reference and the foundations of semantics

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics - direct reference - and its integration into a general semantics for natural language. In the first three chapters, foundational analyses from three philosophers - Saul Kripke, David Kaplan and Keith Donnellan - are dissected in...

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Main Author: Almog, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics - direct reference - and its integration into a general semantics for natural language. In the first three chapters, foundational analyses from three philosophers - Saul Kripke, David Kaplan and Keith Donnellan - are dissected in detail. The differences between their respective ideas lead to varying consequences in the philosophy of mind, the metaphysics of necessity, and the epistemological idea of a priori knowledge. In the last chapter, two central puzzles said to threaten direct reference are raised
ISBN:9780199349487
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199314379.001.0001

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