The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

ISBN-13: 9780367629724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 586 str.

Stephen Biggs; Heimir Geirsson

Opis

The 41 chapters by philosophers of language are split into ten parts, including. Early Descriptive Theories; Causal Theories of Reference; Alternate Theories; Two-Dimensional Semantics; Natural Kind Terms and Rigidity; The Empty Case; Singular (de re) Thought; Indexicals. For undergraduates and above.

Spis treści

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