The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference Paperback / softback
Edited by Stephen Biggs, Heimir Geirsson
Part of the Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.
The volume’s forty-one original chapters, written by many of today’s leading philosophers of language, are organized into ten parts:I Early Descriptive TheoriesII Causal Theories of ReferenceIII Causal Theories and Cognitive SignificanceIV Alternate TheoriesV Two-Dimensional SemanticsVI Natural Kind Terms and RigidityVII The Empty CaseVIII Singular (De Re) ThoughtsIX IndexicalsX Epistemology of Reference Contributions consider what kinds of expressions actually refer (names, general terms, indexicals, empty terms, sentences), what referring expressions refer to, what makes an expression refer to whatever it does, connections between meaning and reference, and how we know facts about reference.
Many contributions also develop connections between linguistic reference and issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:586 pages, 9 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2022
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- ISBN:9780367630249
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:586 pages, 9 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367630249
