Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism - Couverture souple

Soames, Scott

 
9780691130996: Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism
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ISBN 10 : 069113099X ISBN 13 : 9780691130996
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance.

Arguing against this reinterpretation, Soames shows how the descriptivist revival has been aided by puzzles and problems ushered in by the anti-descriptivist revolution, as well as by certain errors and missteps in the anti-descriptivist classics themselves. Reference and Description sorts through all this, assesses and consolidates the genuine legacy of Kripke and Kaplan, and launches a thorough and devastating critique of the two-dimensionalist revival of descriptivism. Through it all, Soames attempts to provide the outlines of a lasting, nondescriptivist perspective on meaning, and a nonconceptualist understanding of modality.

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À propos de l?auteur

Scott Soames, formerly Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2 (Princeton), Beyond Rigidity, and Understanding Truth.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
069113099X
ISBN 13 
9780691130996
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
374
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780691121000: Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism

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ISBN 10 :  0691121001 ISBN 13 :  9780691121000
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2004
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