A Use-Sensitive Philosophical Account
Edición de la obra Names and Context
| Autor | Dolf Rami, Christopher Gauker, Johannes Brandl, Mark Textor, Max Kolbel |
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| Editorial | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 280 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781350180628 |
| OCLC | 1252739759 |
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R173n |
"Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and reference of proper names by providing an overview of the theory and developing a new contextualist account of names. Questions about the use and features of proper names are at the centre of philosophy of language. How does a single proper name refer to the same thing in different contexts of use? What makes a thing a bearer of a proper name? What is their meaning? Guided by these questions, Rami discusses Saul Kripke's main contributions to the debate and introduces a new way to capture the rigidity of names, proposing a pluralist version of the causal chain picture. Covering popular contextualist accounts of names, both indexical and variabilist, he presents a use-sensitive alternative based on a semantic comparison between names, pronouns and demonstratives. Extending and applying his approach to a wide variety of uses, including names in fiction, this is a comprehensive explanation of why we should interpret proper names as context-dependent expressions"