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Meeting name: | Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (13th : 2010 : Pullman, Wash.; Moscow, Idaho) |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in contemporary philosophy Topics in contemporary philosophy. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168694 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; 1 Reference and Referring ; Introduction; The Content Approach; Semantics, Metasemantics, and the Metaphysics of Content; Reference and the Content Approach; The Fregean Version of the Content Approach; Direct Reference Challenges to the Fregean Approach; Challenges for Direct Reference; The Mechanism of Reference; The Role of a Theory of Reference; The Semantics of Other Kinds of Referring Expressions; Notes; References; 2 Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location; 1 The Background; 2 The Reference Argument; 3 The Reidentification Argument
- 4 Concluding RemarksAcknowledgments; Notes; References; 3 Empirical Data and the Theory of Reference; 1 Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Semantics; 2 Cross-Culturalism; 3 The First Test; 4 New Experiments and New Arguments; 5 The Input of Semantic Theorizing; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4 Two Versions of Millianism; From Semantic Content to Assertive Content; An Assumption about Relational Quantification; A Semantic Difference That Might Make an Empirical Difference; The Contents of Discourses; Two Further Difficulties; Coordination and the Metaphysics of Propositions
- Appendix: Can Ambiguity Save Semantic Relationism?Notes; References; 5 Semantic Stipulation and Knowledge De Re; 1 Introduction; 2 The Puzzle; 3 What the Puzzle Is a Puzzle About; 4 Replies; 5 Two New Proposals; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 6 Hob, Nob, and Mythical Witches; 1 The Metaphysics of Mythical Witches; 2 Ambiguities and Geach's Sentence; 3 Salmon's Analysis of Geach's Sentence; 4 The Content Objection to Salmon's Theory; 5 A Salmonian Pragmatics; 6 A Modified Salmonian Pragmatic Theory; 7 Do Hob and Nob Think about Some Entity?
- 8 An Alternative Explanation of Geachian IntuitionsAppendix; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7 From Having in Mind to Direct Reference; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 8 Necessity in Reference; 1 Kaplan's Question; 2 The Nature of Tokens; 3 The Nature of Referential Intentions; 4 Putting It All Together; 5 Concluding Complications; Appendix; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 9 Has the Theory of Reference Rested on a Mistake?; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Characterizing the Descriptivist Picture; 3 Characterizing the Historical Chain Picture; 4 Consumers Have No Determination; Acknowledgments
- NotesReferences; 10 Referring to What Is and to What Isn't; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 11 Reference and Jazz Combo Theories of Meaning; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Jazz Combo Theory and the Priority of the Sentence; 3 The Cause- Norm Gap; 4 Jazz Combo Theories and the Social-Dialectical Nature of Objectivity; 5 Wherein Is the Sentence Prior to the Constituent?; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; 12 Quantification and Conversation; 1 Introduction; 2 The Intuitive Evidence Favors Generalism; 3 The Context-Shifting Reply; 4 The Binding Argument; 5 The Availability Hypothesis; 6 The Scope Principle