Referential Mechanics - Direct Reference and the Foundations of Semantics

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Part I-Direct Reference by Designation


• Part II-Direct Reference by Singular Proposition


• Part III-Direct Reference by Referential Use


• Part IV-Foundational Questions-Two Central Puzzles


• Index

About the author

Joseph Almog is the author of Everything in Its Right Place (forthcoming), Cogito: Descartes and Thinking the World (2008), What Am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem (2001) and co-editor of Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (2012), Having in Mind: The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan (2012), and The Philosophy of David Kaplan (2009) - all from Oxford University Press.

Summary

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Almog, Joseph (Professor of Philosophy Almog
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9780199314379
• ISBN: 978-0-19-931437-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy