Reference and the rational mind / Kenneth A. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019.

Series:

CSLI lecture notes ; no. 153.

CSLI lecture notes ; no. 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xvii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, [2003]

Summary:

Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the ways in which mind, language, and world relate to one another. In exploring these consequences, this book defends a version of referentialism about names, demonstratives, and indexicals, in a manner appropriate for scholars and students in philosophy or the cognitive sciences. To demonstrate his view, Kenneth A. Taylor offers original and provocative accounts of a wide variety of semantic, pragmatic, and psychological phenomena, such as empty names, propositional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.

Contents:

What 's in a name?

Lexical syntax vs lexical semantics

An anaphoric treatment of Frege's puzzle

Names contrasted with deictics

On the type-individuation of names

An anaphoric treatment of Kripke's puzzle

Empty names and the anaphoric thesis

Names and principle

On the pragmatics of substitution

Conclusions

The psychology of direct reference

Preliminaries

Concepts vs conceptions : a referentialist approach

What that clauses do not specify

Recanati's accommodationist neo-russellianism

Meaning, reference, and cognitive significance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-410) and index.

ISBN:

1575864320

1575864312

OCLC:

52720674