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Empty Representations - Reference and Non-Existence (Hardcover)
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Empty Representations - Reference and Non-Existence (Hardcover)
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It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects
that we think or talk about. But what about singular terms that
seem to fail to designate anything, because the objects they refer
to don't exist? We can employ these terms in meaningful thought and
talk, which suggests that they are succeeding in fulfilling their
representational task. A team of leading experts presents new
essays on the much-debated problem of empty reference and thought.
In the 1960s and 1970s Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, Saul Kripke
and Hilary Putnam initiated a revolution in the then standard
conception of reference-a concept at the core of philosophical
inquiry. The repercussions of the revolution, particularly felt in
metaphysics and epistemology, were soon refined by other
influential writers such as Tyler Burge, Gareth Evans, and John
Perry. They argued that some linguistic and mental representations
have contents individuated by what they are about-by ordinary
referents of expressions such as proper names, indexicals, definite
descriptions and common nouns, i.e. by planets, people or natural
kinds. The view was at odds with a central philosophical
presumption at that time: that cognitive and linguistic access to
objective reality is indirect and accidental, mediated by general
descriptive characterizations, the only constitutive semantic
feature of the expressions; hence its ontological and
epistemological repercussions. A turning-point in the debate about
how linguistic and mental representation reach external contents
concerned the nature of empty mental and linguistic
representations, framed by means of the very same expressions
crucially invoked in the Donnellan-Kaplan-Kripke-Putnam arguments.
The papers in this volume address different aspects of reference
and thought about the (apparently) non-existent.
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