How Do Proper Names Really Work

Author : Claudio Ferreira-Costa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110986174

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How Do Proper Names Really Work? by Claudio Ferreira-Costa Pdf

For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name’s cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan’s main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan’s and John Perry’s views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam’s externalism.

Author : Claudio Ferreira-Costa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110985740

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How Do Proper Names Really Work? by Claudio Ferreira-Costa Pdf

For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name’s cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan’s main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan’s and John Perry’s views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam’s externalism.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614762552

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Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139459808

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Michael Morris Pdf

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

Author : Willy Van Langendonck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197853

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Theory and Typology of Proper Names by Willy Van Langendonck Pdf

This book proposes a new synthesis of the functions of proper names, from a semantic, pragmatic and syntactic perspective. Proper names are approached constructionally, distinguishing prototypical uses from more marked ones such as those in which names are used as common nouns. Since what is traditionally regarded as 'the' class of names turns out to be only one possible function of name-forms (though a prototypical one), the notion of 'proprial lemma' is introduced as the concept behind both proprial and appellative uses of such categories as place names and personal names. New formal arguments are adduced to distinguish proper name function from common noun or pronoun function. The special status of proper names is captured in a unified pragmatic-semantic-syntactic theory: a proper name denotes a unique entity at the level of langue to make it psychosocially salient within a given basic level category. The meaning of the name, if any, does not determine its denotation. An important formal reflection of this characterization of names is their ability to appear in such close appositional constructions as the poet Burns or Fido the dog. The neurolinguistic finding that proper names constitute a separate category is introduced and interpreted within a general linguistic frame of reference. The different kinds of meanings associated with names (categorical, associative, emotive, and grammatical) are shown to be presuppositional in nature. In addition, the book proposes an entirely new classification of proper names as forming a continuum ranging from prototypical (personal and place names) to nonprototypical categories (brand and language names) to citations and autonyms, and a new diachronic classification of family names and nicknames. This book fills an important gap in the current literature, because the most recent linguistic book in English on name theory dates back to 1973. It is explicitly interdisciplinary, taking into account linguistic, philosophical, neurolinguistic, sociolinguistic and dialect geographical aspects of proper names.

Author : Andrea Bianchi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191023484

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On Reference by Andrea Bianchi Pdf

Most of the times we open our mouth to communicate, we talk about things. This can happen because (some of) the linguistic expressions we use have semantic properties that connect them to extra-linguistic entities. Thanks to these properties, they may be used by us to refer to things. Or, as we may also say, they themselves refer to things, though in certain cases they do so only relative to a context of use. But how can we characterize the semantic properties in question? What exactly is reference? Philosophers have been trying to answer these questions at least since Plato's Cratylus, but not until the last century, when language occupied center-stage in philosophy, did the problem come to be felt as really pressing. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Gottlob Frege produced an account of reference that set the stage for the contemporary discussion. Nevertheless, around 1970 a number of powerful arguments against it were produced by Saul Kripke and others. As a result, many philosophers began to look at reference from a new perspective, which highlighted the crucial role played by wordly historical facts that may be unknown to the speakers. This semantic revolution, however, left us with a number of open problems. The eighteen original essays collected in this volume deal with many of these problems, thus contributing to our understanding of the nature of reference, its role in cognition, and the place it should be given in semantic theory.

Author : Holger Steen Sørensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UOM:39015040122809

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The Meaning of Proper Names by Holger Steen Sørensen Pdf

Author : Frédérique Biville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015069306671

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What's in a Name? by Frédérique Biville Pdf

Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems.

Author : John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007095560

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Science by John Michels (Journalist) Pdf

Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.

Author : Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262621002

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Knowledge of Meaning by Richard K. Larson,Gabriel Segal Pdf

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate program in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist. Linguistic semantics cannot be studied as a stand-alone subject but only as part of cognitive psychology, the authors assert. It is the study of a particular human cognitive competence governing the meanings of words and phrases. Larson and Segal argue that speakers have unconscious knowledge of the semantic rules of their language, and they present concrete, empirically motivated proposals about a formal theory of this competence based on the work of Alfred Tarski and Donald Davidson. The theory is extended to a wide range of constructions occurring in natural language, including predicates, proper nouns, pronouns and demonstratives, quantifiers, definite descriptions, anaphoric expressions, clausal complements, and adverbs. Knowledge of Meaning gives equal weight to philosophical, empirical, and formal discussions. It addresses not only the empirical issues of linguistic semantics but also its fundamental conceptual questions, including the relation of truth to meaning and the methodology of semantic theorizing. Numerous exercises are included in the book.

Author : Gottlob Frege
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547726463

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On Sense and Reference by Gottlob Frege Pdf

In the philosophy of language, the difference between sense and reference was a concept of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892. This idea, presented in this work, reflects the two ways he thought a singular term might have meaning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11355783

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The reliquary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Llewellynn Jewitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11332137

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The reliquary; A depository for precious relics-legendary, biographical and historical, Illustrative of the habits, customs and pursuits of our forefathers by Llewellynn Jewitt Pdf

Author : Thomas Reid,Dugald Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : UVA:X002119904

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The Works of Thomas Reid by Thomas Reid,Dugald Stewart Pdf

Author : Ariele Sieling
Publisher : Ariele Sieling
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vault of Bones by Ariele Sieling Pdf

Find the Weatherman. This vague directive is all that Askari and the others have as they head north into an increasingly cold and snowy winter. With Minda leading the ragtag band of Baratok members, they head to the Marketplace, a center of trade for the many communities and tribes that survive within the region. But no one has seen the Weatherman in weeks. Their only clue is from a crotchety old man named Moose, who agrees to lead them to the most recent location where he saw the Weatherman in exchange for a fee. They set out despite the looming snowstorm, knowing that if they fail, it's not only their own lives at stake, but the lives of everyone everywhere. They have to stop the flood of monsters into the world, or there won't be anyone left to save.