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

• Autore: Jackson Frank <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.68; 401
• Soggetto topico: Discourse analysis; Psycholinguistics; Consciousness; Linguistics - Methodology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language, names, and information
• ISBN: 1-4443-5157-5; 1-283-17803-6; 9786613178039; 1-4443-2536-1; 1-4443-2537-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910140552303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ; ; 3.