Author

Publication

2004-11-29 - Princeton University Press

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC121/.68
  • LCCB105.D4 S66 2005

Description

"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 them of their far-reaching philosophical significance."--Jacket.

First Sentence

The modern discussion of reference begins with the reaction of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell to all initially attractive but overly simple conception of meaning and reference.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Reference and Description: The Case against Two-DimensionalismHardcoverPrinceton University Press2004-11-29

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