Beyond rigidity [[electronic resource] ] : the unfinished semantic agenda of Naming and necessity / / Scott Soames

• Autore: Soames Scott
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 160
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-372) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""1. The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity""; ""2. Rigid Designation and Its Lessons for the Semantic Contents of Proper Names""; ""3. The Meaning of Names""; ""4. Ambiguity and Indexicality""; ""5. Partially Descriptive Names""; ""6. The Problem Posed by Propositional Attitude Ascriptions""; ""7. The Case Against Linguistically Enhanced Propositions""; ""8. Millian Meaning and Pseudo-Fregean Attitudes""; ""9. What Is It for a General Term to Be a Rigid Designator?""; ""10. What Do Natural Kind Predicates Have in Common with Proper Names?"" ; ""11. Natural Kind Predicates, Mass Nouns, and Abstract Singular Terms""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond rigidity
• ISBN: 0-19-514529-1; 1-280-53181-9; 9786610531813; 1-4237-4575-2; 0-19-803321-4; 1-60256-971-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780302003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II