Joseph Laporte

Rigid Designation and Theoretical Identities

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Produktbeschreibung

Joseph LaPorte offers an original account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. He argues that terms for properties, as well as for concrete objects, are rigid designators, and defends the Kripkean tradition of theoretical identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780199609208
• ISBN-10: 0199609209
• Artikelnr.: 36052855

Autorenporträt

Joseph LaPorte is Professor of Philosophy at Hope College. He has published many articles in the philosophy of language, metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change(CUP, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Rigid Designators for Concrete Objects and for Properties
* 2: On the Coherence of the Distinction
* 3: On Whether the Distinction Assigns to Rigidity the Right Role
* 4: A Uniform Treatment of Property Designators as Singular Terms
* 5: Rigid Appliers
* 6: Rigidity-Associated Arguments in Support of Theoretical Identity
Statements: on their Significance and the Cost of their Philosophical
Resources
* 7: The Skeptical Argument Impugning Psychophysical Identity
Statements: on its Significance and the Cost of its Philosophical
Resources
* 8: The Skeptical Argument Further Examined: on Resources, Allegedly
Overlooked, for Confirming Psychophysical Identities
* References
* Index