The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

By: Stephen Biggs and Heimir Geirsson

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Synopsis: This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about. The volume’s forty-one original chapters, written by many of today’s leading philosophers of language, are organized into ten parts:I Early Descriptive TheoriesII Causal Theories of ReferenceIII Causal Theories and Cognitive SignificanceIV Alternate TheoriesV Two-Dimensional SemanticsVI Natural Kind Terms and RigidityVII The Empty CaseVIII Singular (De Re) ThoughtsIX IndexicalsX Epistemology of Reference Contributions consider what kinds of expressions actually refer (names, general terms, indexicals, empty terms, sentences), what referring expressions refer to, what makes an expression refer to whatever it does, connections between meaning and reference, and how we know facts about reference. Many contributions also develop connections between linguistic reference and issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 586 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000226768
Related ISBNs:: 9781003111894, 9780367630249, 9781000226782, 9780367629724, 9781000226775
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/15/24
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Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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Edited by:: Stephen Biggs
Edited by:: Heimir Geirsson