Roads to Reference - An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language

List of contents

• 1: Reference: Problems and Promises


• 2: Demonstratives and Conflicting Intentions


• 3: Proper Names and Referential Indeterminacy


• 4: Arabic Numerals and the Problem of Mathematical Sophistication


• 5: Nouns for Natural Kinds and the Problem of Arbitrariness


• 6: Words for Sensible Qualities and the Problem of Perceptual Variation


• 7: Concluding Notes

About the author

Mario Gómez-Torrente is a research professor at the Institute of Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was previously an ICREA research professor at the University of Barcelona and has held teaching or visiting appointments at Princeton University, University of Buenos Aires, University of Groningen, McGill University, and University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. His main interests are in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic.

Summary

How do words come to stand for what they stand for? Is a word's reference fully identified or described by conventions known to the users of the word? Mario Gómez-Torrente tackles these questions and many more as he takes on the difficult task of describing the conventions which lead certain words to refer to what they do.

Product details

• Authors: Mario (Research Professor Gomez-Torrente, Mario Gómez-Torrente
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198846277
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884627-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc