Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

ISBN-13: 9780195145281 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 392 str.

Scott Soames

Opis

In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.

Recenzje

This excellent book is aptly titled ... Soames touches on a wide variety of semantic topics, all of which he treats with his characteristically high degree of clarity, depth, and precision. Anyone who is interested in the semantic issues raised by Naming and Necessity, or in more recent work on proper names, attitude ascriptions, and natural kind terms, will find this book indispensable.