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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140552303321

Autore

Jackson Frank <1943->

Titolo

Language, names, and information [[electronic resource] /] / Frank Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-4443-5157-5

1-283-17803-6

9786613178039

1-4443-2536-1

1-4443-2537-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

The Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ; ; 3

Disciplina

121/.68

401

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Psycholinguistics

Consciousness

Linguistics - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Language, Names, and Information; Contents; Prologue; Lecture One: The Debate Over the Theory of Reference for Proper Names; Lecture Two: Understanding, Representation, Information; Lecture Three: Ir-content and the Set of Worlds Where a Sentenceis True; Lecture Four: Two Spaceism; Lecture Five: The Informational Value of Names; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.Challenges current pervasive view that the description theory of reference for proper



names has been refutedDiscusses several topics at the center of current debates, including representat