LEADER 04212nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910778098203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08665-0 010 $a9786612086656 010 $a1-4008-2645-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826452 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756331 035 $a(EBL)445549 035 $a(OCoLC)336901793 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000234477 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234477 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237331 035 $a(PQKB)11074673 035 $a(OCoLC)899264878 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36275 035 $a(DE-B1597)446530 035 $a(OCoLC)979970147 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826452 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445549 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284023 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445549 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756331 100 $a20040301e20072005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReference and description$b[electronic resource] $ethe case against two-dimensionalism /$fScott Soames 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2007, c2005 215 $a1 online resource (373 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12100-1 311 $a0-691-13099-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tA Word about Notation -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. The Revolt Against Descriptivism -- $tChapter 1. The Traditional Descriptivist Picture -- $tChapter 2. Attack on the Traditional Picture -- $tPart Two. Descriptivist Resistance: The Origins of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism -- $tChapter 3. Reasons for Resistance and the Strategy for Descriptivist Revival -- $tChapter 4. Roots of Two-Dimensionalism in Kaplan and Kripke -- $tChapter 5. Stalnaker's Two-Dimensionalist Model of Discourse -- $tChapter 6. The Early Two-Dimensionalist Semantics of Davies and Humberstone -- $tPart Three. Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism -- $tChapter 7. Strong and Weak Two-Dimensionalism -- $tChapter 8. Jackson's Strong Two-Dimensionalist Program -- $tChapter 9. Chalmers's Two-Dimensionalist Defense of Zombies -- $tChapter 10. Critique Of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism -- $tPart Four. The Way Forward -- $tChapter 11. Positive Nondescriptivism -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. Arguing against this reinterpretation, Soames shows how the descriptivist revival has been aided by puzzles and problems ushered in by the anti-descriptivist revolution, as well as by certain errors and missteps in the anti-descriptivist classics themselves. Reference and Description sorts through all this, assesses and consolidates the genuine legacy of Kripke and Kaplan, and launches a thorough and devastating critique of the two-dimensionalist revival of descriptivism. Through it all, Soames attempts to provide the outlines of a lasting, nondescriptivist perspective on meaning, and a nonconceptualist understanding of modality. 606 $aDescription (Philosophy) 606 $aPhilosophy 615 0$aDescription (Philosophy) 615 0$aPhilosophy. 676 $a121.68 686 $a08.34$2bcl 700 $aSoames$b Scott$0739508 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778098203321 996 $aReference and description$93854203 997 $aUNINA