Reference and description : the case against two-dimensionalism /

Reference and description : the case against two-dimensionalism /

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Author / Creator:Soames, Scott.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 359 pages)
Language:English
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Description (Philosophy)
Reference (Philosophy)
Description (Philosophy)
Reference (Philosophy)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11194416
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Varying Form of Title:Reference & description
ISBN:9781400826452
1400826454
9780691121000
0691121001
069113099X
9780691130996
1282086650
9781282086654
0691121001
9780691130996
Notes:Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain.
Other form:Print version: Soames, Scott. Reference and description. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007 069113099X 9780691130996
Table of Contents:
  • A Word about Notation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The Revolt Against Descriptivism
  • Chapter 1. The Traditional Descriptivist Picture
  • Chapter 2. Attack on the Traditional Picture Proper Names, Non-Descriptionality, and Rigid Designation
  • Part 2. Descriptivist Resistance: The Origins Of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism
  • Chapter 3. Reasons for Resistance and the Strategy for Descriptivist Revival
  • Chapter 4. Roots of Two-Dimensionalism in Kaplan and Kripke
  • Chapter 5. Stalnaker's Two-Dimensionalist Model of Discourse
  • Chapter 6. The Early Two-Dimensionalist Semantics of Davies and Humberstone
  • Part 3. Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism
  • Chapter 7. Strong and Weak Two-Dimensionalism
  • Chapter 8. Jackson's Strong Two-Dimensionalist Program
  • Chapter 9. Chalmers's Two-Dimensionalist Defense of Zombies
  • Chapter 10. Critique of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism
  • Part 4. The Way Forward
  • Chapter 11. Positive Nondescriptivism
  • Index

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