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Philosophical Approaches to Proper Names

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk,Luis Fernández Moreno
Publisher : Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 3631662653

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Philosophical Approaches to Proper Names by Piotr Stalmaszczyk,Luis Fernández Moreno Pdf

The authors discuss philosophical approaches to proper names. They assess traditional analyses and modern controversies and contribute to contemporary philosophy of language. Topics discussed include the philosophy of language, proper names, naming, definite descriptions and theories of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, J. S. Mill, Donald Davidson.

Names and Context

Author : Dolf Rami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350180635

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Names and Context by Dolf Rami Pdf

Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and reference of proper names by providing an overview of the main challenges and developing a new contextualist account of names. Questions about the use and semantic features of proper names are at the centre of philosophy of language. How does a single proper name refer to the same thing in different contexts of use? What makes a thing a bearer of a proper name? What is their meaning? Guided by these questions, Rami discusses Saul Kripke's main contributions to the debate and introduces two new ways to capture the rigidity of names, proposing a pluralist version of the causal chain picture. Covering popular contextualist accounts of names, both indexical and variabilist, he presents a use-sensitive alternative based on a semantic comparison between names, pronouns and demonstratives. Extending and applying his approach to a wide variety of uses, including names in fiction, this is a comprehensive explanation of why we should interpret proper names as use-sensitive expressions.

The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names

Author : Serge Bredart,Tim Brennen,Tim Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134779567

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The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names by Serge Bredart,Tim Brennen,Tim Valentine Pdf

It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name." Lots of people have difficulty remembering people's names, even though they can easily recall other information about the person. As memory and retrieval processes are central to cognitive psychology and neuropsychology the study of proper names makes a fascinating and practical focus of study. Using an information processing approach, Valentine, Brennen and Bredart consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's names. This book will be valuable to all those studying cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology and linguistics. It makes a suitalbe text for higher level undergraduates and postgraduates and those engaged in research.

How Do Proper Names Really Work?

Author : Claudio Ferreira-Costa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

Philosophical Approaches to Communication

Author : Claude Mangion
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781841505022

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Philosophical Approaches to Communication by Claude Mangion Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the forms and various philosophical theories of communication, this volume is composed of three sections focusing on the production of culturally relevant communication, the interpretation of communicative messages, and the effects of communication on both speaker and listener. Each section draws on the work of key philosophers—from Foucault to Derrida to Habermas—and presents a detailed critical overview of the work in relation to the field of communication. Exhaustively researched, this book presents an up-to-date overview of thinking on communication theory in one inclusive volume.

Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110320244

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Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic Analysis by Piotr Stalmaszczyk Pdf

Articles gathered in the volume focus on traditional and contemporary debates within the philosophy of language, and on the interfaces between linguistics, philosophy, and logic. The topics of individual contributions cover such diverse issues as analytic accounts of the a priori and implicit definitions, medieval and contemporary theories of fallacy, game-theoretical semantics, modal games in natural language and literary semantics, possible-world theories and paradoxes involving structured propositions, extensions to Dynamic Syntax, semantics of proper names, judgement-dependence, tacit knowledge and linguistic understanding, ontology in semantics, implicit knowledge and theory of meaning, and many more. The multitude of topics shows that the convergence of linguistic, philosophical, formal, and cognitive approaches opens new research perspectives within contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. The volume includes contributions by (among other authors): Luis Fernández Moreno (Madrid), Chris Fox (Essex), Ruth Kempson (London), Alexander Miller (Birmingham), Arthur Sullivan (Newfoundland), Mieszko Talasiewicz (Warsaw).

Proper Names

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019209274

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Proper Names by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

"This volume contains Proper Names and its companion piece On Maurice Blanchot. Together they provide and important philosophical consideration of a wide range of modern writers and thinking, including Buber, Derrida, Kierkegaard and Proust."--Book jacket.

Names and Descriptions

Author : Leonard Linsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Description (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0226484416

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Names and Descriptions by Leonard Linsky Pdf

Reference and Representation in Thought and Language

Author : María Ponte,María de Ponte,Kepa Korta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198714217

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Reference and Representation in Thought and Language by María Ponte,María de Ponte,Kepa Korta Pdf

This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that object, long a source of debate in the philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science. Chapters in this volume deal with our devices for singular reference and singular representation, with most focusing on linguistic expressions that are used to refer to particular objects, persons, or places. These expressions include proper names such as Mary and John; indexicals such as I and tomorrow; demonstrative pronouns such as this and that; and some definite and indefinite descriptions such as The Queen of England or a medical doctor. Other chapters examine the ways we represent objects in thought, particularly the first-person perspective and the self, and one explores a notion common to reference and representation: salience. The volume includes the latest views on these complex topics from some of the most prominent authors in the field and will be of interest to anyone working on issues of reference and representation in thought and language.

Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Author : Alex Barber,Robert J Stainton
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0080965016

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Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics by Alex Barber,Robert J Stainton Pdf

The application of philosophy to language study, and language study to philosophy, has experienced demonstrable intellectual growth and diversification in recent decades. Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics comprehensively analyzes and evaluates many of the most interesting facets of this vibrant field. An edited collection of articles taken from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, this volume acts as a single-stop desk reference resource for the field, comprising contributions from the foremost scholars of philosophy of linguistics in their various interdisciplinary specializations. From Plato's Cratylus to Semantic and Epistemic Holism, this fascinating work authoritatively unpacks the diverse and multi-layered concepts of meaning, expression, identity, truth, and countless other themes and subjects straddling the linguistic-philosophical meridian, in 175 articles and over 900 pages. Authoritative review of this dynamic field placed in an interdisciplinary context Approximately 175 articles by leaders in the field Compact and affordable single-volume format

An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language

Author : Ufuk Özen Baykent
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443898201

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An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language by Ufuk Özen Baykent Pdf

Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of language on our reasoning and thinking? Many people are unaware that misunderstandings and conflicts during communication occur as a result of the way we use language. This book introduces the central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language. The book will encourage the reader to explore the depths of the concept of language and will raise an awareness of this distinctive human capacity.

Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language

Author : Peter A. French,Theodore Edward Uehling,Howard K. Wettstein
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816608669

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Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language by Peter A. French,Theodore Edward Uehling,Howard K. Wettstein Pdf

Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This volume, an expanded edition of the philosophy of language issue of the journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1977), includes essays by some of the foremost exponents of the most influential current approaches to the philosophy of language. There are new contributions to this edition by Keith S. Donnellan, Jerrold J. Katz, Barbara Partee, John Searle, Richmond Thomason and Zeno Vendler. Essays drawn from the original edition are by W. V. Quine, Keith S Donnellan, Stephen Schiffer, Donnis W. Stampe, Baruch A Brody, Panayot Butchvarov, Fred I. Dretske, Jaegwon Kim, David Shwayder, J. O. Urmson, Michael Levin, David E. Cooper, John Wallace, Hector-Neri Castaneda, Howard K Wettstein, Herbert Hochberg, Nelson Goodman, Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Root, Bruce Aune, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Of special interest in the original edition was Kripke's paper "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference, Descriptions, and Anaphora," Presents a rebuttal to Kripke's essay and attempts to establish referential attributive distinction as semantically significant.

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods

Author : Christopher Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137344557

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The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods by Christopher Daly Pdf

This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.

Theory and Typology of Proper Names

Author : Willy van Langendonck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110190869

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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.

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

Author : Stephen Biggs,Heimir Geirsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000226768

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The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference by Stephen Biggs,Heimir Geirsson Pdf

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about. The volume’s forty-one original chapters, written by many of today’s leading philosophers of language, are organized into ten parts: I Early Descriptive Theories II Causal Theories of Reference III Causal Theories and Cognitive Significance IV Alternate Theories V Two-Dimensional Semantics VI Natural Kind Terms and Rigidity VII The Empty Case VIII Singular (De Re) Thoughts IX Indexicals X Epistemology of Reference Contributions consider what kinds of expressions actually refer (names, general terms, indexicals, empty terms, sentences), what referring expressions refer to, what makes an expression refer to whatever it does, connections between meaning and reference, and how we know facts about reference. Many contributions also develop connections between linguistic reference and issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.