The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

Herausgeber: Biggs, Stephen; Geirsson, Heimir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 602
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1311g
• ISBN-13: 9780367629724
• ISBN-10: 0367629720
• Artikelnr.: 60599936

Autorenporträt

Stephen Biggs is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He researches and teaches in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and cognitive science. Heimir Geirsson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. He works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaethics, and is the author of Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Early Descriptive Theories 1. The Concept of
Linguistic Reference Before Frege 2. Frege on Reference 3. Fregean
Descriptivism 4. The Referential-Attributive Distinction Part II: Causal
Theories of Reference 5. The Case(s) Against Descriptivism 6. Fruits of the
Causal Theory of Reference 7. The Problem of Reference Change Part III:
Causal Theories and Cognitive Significance 8. Cognitive Significance 9.
Conversational Implicature in Belief Reports 10. Context Sensitivity and
'Believes' 11. A Return to Simple Sentences 12. Eliciting and Conveying
Information Part IV: Alternate Theories 13. Causal Descriptivism 14.
Reference Fixing and Presuppositions 15. Names as Predicates 16.
Variabilism Part V: Two-Dimensional Semantics 17. Two-Dimensional Semantics
18. Two-Dimensional Semantics and Identity Statements 19.
Two-Dimensionalism and the Foundation of Linguistic Analysis 20. A Puzzle
about Assertion Part V: Natural Kind Terms and Rigidity 21. Rigidity of
General Terms 22. The Psychology of Natural Kind Terms 23. Pervasive
Externalism 24. Theoretical Identities as Necessary and A Priori 25. The
Need for Descriptivism 26. The Accommodation Theory of Reference 27.
Science, the Vernecular and the 'Qua' Problem Part VII: The Empty Case 28.
Mill and the Missing Referents 29. Fregean Theories of Names from Fiction
Part VIII: Singular (De Re) Thoughts 30. Reference and Singular Thought 31.
Singular Thoughts, Sentences and Propositions of That Which Does Not Exist
32. Names and Singular Thought Part IX: Indexicals 33. How Demonstratives
and Indexicals Really Work 34. Demonstrative Reference to the Unreal: The
Case of Hallucinations 35. What is Special about De Se Attitudes? 36. De Se
Attitudes and Actions 37. Acting Without Me: Corporate Agency and the First
Person Perspective 38. Semantic Monsters Part X: Epistemology of Reference
39. Cross-Cultural Semantics at 15 40. Reference and Intuitions 41. The
Myth of Quick and Easy Intuitions