Descriptions

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext In Descriptions, Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense, extension, and application of Russell's Theory of Descriptions. He provides a systematic criticism of traditional arguments against this 'paradigm of philosophy' and lucidly demonstrates its importance to contemporary theories of syntax and semantics and to philosophical inquiry. Zusammenfassung In 1905, Bertrand Russell argued that certain logical puzzles are solved if definite descriptions are treated as quantified expressions rather than referential expression, as Frege had thought. Since then, philosophers and, more recently, linguists have debated the relevance of this paradigm to the study of the semantics of natural language. In Descriptions , Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense and extension of Russell's theory, placing it in the center of a theory of singular and nonsingular descriptive phrases and anaphoric pronouns.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Neale, Stephen (Cuny Graduate Center) Neale
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.1993
• EAN: 9780262640312
• ISBN: 978-0-262-64031-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: A Bradford Book; Bradford Books; DESCRIPTIONS &; The MIT Press; A Bradford Book; Bradford Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Epistemologie und Erkenntnistheorie