Reference and referring

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Full title :Reference and referring / edited by William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater.

Summary

Original essays on reference and referring by leading scholars that combine breadth of coverage with thematic unity. These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring in terms of an ongoing dialogue between Fregean and Russellian approaches, the book addresses specific topics, balancing breadth of coverage with thematic unity.The contributors, all leading or emerging scholars, address trenchant neo-Fregean challenges to the direct reference position; consider what positive claims can be made about the mechanism of reference; address the role of a theory of reference within broader theoretical context; and investigate other kinds of linguistic expressions used in referring activities that may themselves be referring expressions.The topical unity and accessibility of the essays, the stage-setting introductory essay, and the comprehensive index combine to make Reference and Referring, along with the other books in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (1 electronic recource (vi, 421 pages)).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0262305119, 9780262305112, 1283953145, 9781283953146, 0262306034, 9780262306034
oclc:on1018056225
LC Classification:B105.R25
Dewey Decimal:121.68

Acknowledgments; 1 Reference and Referring ; Introduction; The Content Approach; Semantics, Metasemantics, and the Metaphysics of Content; Reference and the Content Approach; The Fregean Version of the Content Approach; Direct Reference Challenges to the Fregean Approach; Challenges for Direct Reference; The Mechanism of Reference; The Role of a Theory of Reference; The Semantics of Other Kinds of Referring Expressions; Notes; References; 2 Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location; 1 The Background; 2 The Reference Argument; 3 The Reidentification Argument

4 Concluding RemarksAcknowledgments; Notes; References; 3 Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference; 1 Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Semantics; 2 Cross-Culturalism; 3 The First Test; 4 New Experiments and New Arguments; 5 The Input of Semantic Theorizing; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4 Two Versions of Millianism; From Semantic Content to Assertive Content; An Assumption about Relational Quantification; A Semantic Difference That Might Make an Empirical Difference; The Contents of Discourses; Two Further Difficulties; Coordination and the Metaphysics of Propositions

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Conference papers and proceedings Philosophie -- Congrès Philosophy Philosophy -- Congresses Référence (Philosophie) -- Congrès Reference (Philosophy) Reference (Philosophy) -- Congresses