This book defends the Direct Reference (DR) thesis in philosophy of
language regarding proper names and indexical pronouns. It uniquely
draws out the significant consequences of DR when it is conjoined
with the fact that these singular terms sometimes fail to refer.
Even though DR is widely endorsed by philosophers of language, many
philosophically important and radically controversial consequences
of the thesis have gone largely unexplored. This book makes an
important contribution to the DR literature by explicitly
addressing the consequences that follow from DR regarding failure
of reference. Michael McKinsey argues that only a form of neutral
free logic can capture a revised concept of logical truth that is
consistent with the fact that any sentence of any form that
contains a directly referring genuine term can fail to be either
true or false on interpretations where that term fails to refer. He
also explains how it is possible for there to be true (or false)
sentences that contain non-referring names, even though this
possibility seems inconsistent with DR. Consequences of Reference
Failure will be of interest to philosophers of language and logic
and linguists working on Direct Reference.
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