Naming and reference : the link of word to object /

Naming and reference : the link of word to object /

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Author / Creator:Nelson, R. J. (Raymond John), 1917-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 297 pages)
Language:English
Series:The Problems of philosophy
Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm))
Subject:
Reference (Philosophy)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Reference (Philosophy)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178418
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ISBN:020316900X
9780203169001
0585460191
9780585460192
9780415009393
0415009391
1280193727
9781280193729
1134984529
9781134984527
0415009391
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-290) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Nelson looks at how language relates to the world and more particularly at the referring power of names. The first half of the book details the history of the subject from Locke onwards and is followed by Nelson's own reference theory.
Other form:Print version: Nelson, R.J. (Raymond John), 1917- Naming and reference. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Problems of Philosophy Their Past and Present
  • Naming and Reference
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  • 1. From words to things
  • 2. Referential metaphysics
  • 3. Plato, Aristotle and numbers
  • 4. Three commandments
  • CHAPTER 2 Natural Signs
  • 1 . Reference themes
  • 2. Locke's theories of names
  • 3. Brentano's thesis
  • 4. Peirce: reference is inference
  • 5. From mind to logic
  • CHAPTER 3 Sense and Reference
  • 1. Frege's semantics
  • 2. Exact languages
  • 3. Sense and reference
  • 4. Natural languages
  • 5 . Sorts of sense
  • CHAPTER 4 Naming and Describing
  • 1 . Philosophical analysis
  • 2. Logical atomism
  • 3. Knowledge by acquaintance and description
  • 4. Reference and denotation
  • 5. Reference and use
  • 6. Glosses and objections
  • CHAPTER 5 Truth Without Reference
  • 1. Semantics and paradox
  • 2. The concept of truth
  • 3. Where is reference?
  • 4. Carnap and logical truth
  • 5. Is reference a priori?
  • CHAPTER 6 Reference and Speech Act
  • 1 . Understanding and use
  • 2. Language users, silent or banished
  • 3. Pure pragmatics
  • CHAPTER 7 Steps Toward Naturalism
  • 1. Philosophy-part of science
  • 2. Indeterminacy
  • 3. Regimentation
  • 4. Identity and behavior
  • CHAPTER 8 Cause and Function
  • 1. Rigid designation
  • 2. Folk psychology
  • 3. Mind as functional
  • 4. Mental representation
  • 5. Machines and representation
  • 6. Nativism and causal reference
  • CHAPTER 9 Mechanism
  • 1. Top-down semantics
  • 2. Up from reference
  • 3. Algorithms: free and embodied
  • 4. Cause, computation and reference
  • 5. Syntax and intention
  • CHAPTER 10 Direct Reference
  • 1. Words, states and rules
  • 2. Observational semantics
  • 3. Perception and meaning
  • 4. Intentionality
  • 5. Indexes and subatoms
  • 6. Warrant and truth
  • CHAPTER 11 Mind and Semantics
  • 1 . Reflections on reference and truth
  • 2. Boundaries of psychosemantics
  • 3. Evolution and acquisition
  • Appendix
  • Production rules
  • Processor
  • Turing machines
  • Turing computable function
  • Church-Turing thesis
  • Universal Turing machines; free and embodied algorithms
  • Characteristic functions
  • Acceptor
  • Acceptance and acceptability
  • Equivalence and identity
  • Partial functions
  • Equivalence of algorithms
  • Taking and self-description: the routine
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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