Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 501 g
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A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory
Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 501 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-099716-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name’s cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan’s main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan’s and John Perry’s views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam’s externalism.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of philosophy, especially analytical philos
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Etymologie, Onomastik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
