Proper names : a Millian account / Stefano Predelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Predelli, Stefano, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Mill, John Stuart.

Names--Philosophy.

Names.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 165 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Millian account

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Stefano Predelli defends a semantics of proper names which has simplicity and common sense in its favour: proper names are non-indexical devices of rigid and direct reference. He grounds this view in accounts of the shape and form of names, and of their introduction within language use, and he responds to widespread misconceptions and objections.

Contents:

Introduction; 0.1 Preliminaries: Who Should Go on Reading?; 0.2 The Structure of the Book; 1: Preliminaries; 1.1 Semantic Values; 1.2 Points and d; 1.3 Contexts and i; 1.4 n; 1.5 Content; 1.6 Character, Direct Reference, and Millianism; 1.7 Truth in a Context; 1.8 Where Am I Now?; 2: Articulations and Uses; 2.1 Articulations; 2.2 Uses and their Representation; 2.3 The Pre-Semantics of Ambiguity; 2.4 The Effects of Use; 2.5 Words; 2.6 Where Am I Now?; 3: Launching Names; 3.1 Names in the Language.

3.2 Launching Enterprises: The Launcher; 3.3 Automatic and Smooth Launchings; 3.4 The Launching Device; 3.5 The Launching Target: Ostension and Description; 3.6 Where Am I Now?; 4: Using Names; 4.1 Replicating Episodes; 4.2 Homonymy; 4.3 The Effects of Use: Proper Names; 4.4 Settlemento: Authorized Naming; 4.5 The Encyclopaedic Penumbra; 4.6 Where Am I Now?; 5: Loose Ends; 5.1 Biased Names; 5.2 Block Launchings; 5.3 Placeholder Names; 5.4 Where Am I Now?; 6: Names and Nouns; 6.1 The Determiner-Hypothesis; 6.2 Names and Predicates; 6.3 PH and Pre-Semantics; 6.4 PH and Millianism.

6.5 Where Am I Now?; 7: A Tale of Two Horses; 7.1 Kripkeś Horses; 7.2 Back to PH; 7.3 Deer and Horses; 7.4 Where Am I Now?; 8: The No-Name Hypothesis; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Homodiegetic Narratives; 8.3 Heterodiegetic Narrative: The Narrative Periphery; 8.4 Retelling; 8.5 The Paratactic Analysis; 8.6 Issues from the Periphery: Allegedly Real Names; 8.7 More `Homonymies;́ 8.8 Where Am I Now?; References; Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-108399-2

0-19-182360-0

0-19-108398-4