Proper Names - A Millian Account

Stefano Predelli defends a semantics of proper names which has simplicity and common sense in its favour: proper names are non-indexical devices of rigid and direct reference. He grounds this view in accounts of the shape and form of names, and of their introduction within language use, and he responds to widespread misconceptions and objections.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Preliminaries


• 2: Articulations and Uses


• 3: Lunching Names


• 4: Using Names


• 5: Loose Ends


• 6: Names and Nouns


• 7: A Tale of Two Horses


• 8: Fictional Names

About the author

Stefano Predelli completed his doctoral studies at UCLA in 1991, with a dissertation on indexicals supervised by David Kaplan. He then moved to Norway, where he taught for a few years at the University of Oslo. He is currently a professor at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language (OUP, 2005), and Meaning without Truth (OUP, 2013).

Summary

Stefano Predelli defends a semantics of proper names which has simplicity and common sense in its favour: proper names are non-indexical devices of rigid and direct reference. He grounds this view in accounts of the shape and form of names, and of their introduction within language use, and he responds to widespread misconceptions and objections.

Product details

• Authors: Stefano Predelli, Stefano (University of Nottingham) Predelli, Predelli Stefano
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9780198778158
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877815-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge