Home » Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference
Product Image

Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

€303.80
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
advanced linguistic reference studies
analytic philosophy
Belief Attributions
Belief Reports
Category=CFA
Category=CFG
Category=PDA
Category=QD
Category=QDTJ
Category=QDTK
Category=QDTL
Category=QDTM
Category=QDTQ
Clark Kent
cognitive linguistics
Cognitive significance
Coreferential Names
De Se
Definite Description
Demonstrative Reference
epistemology of meaning
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
Frege's Puzzles
Frege’s Puzzles
indexical expressions
Kal El
Linguistic reference
Mental File
Metaphysics
Natural Kind
Natural Kind Terms
philosophy of language
Philosophy of mind
reference theory
Rigid Designators
Russellian Proposition
Semantic Content
Semantic Reference
Singular Proposition
Singular Terms
Singular Thought
Speaker's Reference
Speaker’s Reference
Theoretical Identity Statements
Truth Conditional Contents
Twin Earth
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Vice Versa
Watery Stuff

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367629724
  • Weight: 1206g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Dec 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

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:

  1. Early Descriptive Theories
  2. Causal Theories of Reference
  3. Causal Theories and Cognitive Significance
  4. Alternate Theories
  5. Two-Dimensional Semantics
  6. Natural Kind Terms and Rigidity
  7. The Empty Case
  8. Singular (De Re) Thoughts
  9. Indexicals
  10. 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.
About

Stephen Biggs is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He researches and teaches in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and cognitive science.

Heimir Geirsson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. He works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaethics, and is the author of Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information (2013).