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Naming and Reference - The Link of Word to Object (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Naming and Reference - The Link of Word to Object (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Problems of Philosophy
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The question of how language relates to the world is one of the
most important problems of philosophy. What the word "God" refers
to and the question "Does God exist?" are clearly linked. The
existence or non-existence of God (or electrons or unicorns) is
directly related to the issue of what and how a name names. "Naming
and Reference" tackles the challenge of explaining the referring
power of names. More specifically it explores the reference of
lexical terms (especially proper names and pronouns) and the issue
of empty or speculative names such as "Satan" and "leptons". The
lack of semantics of such terms is a serious difficulty for
linguistics, cognitive science and epistemology. In the first half
of the book, a survey of the history of the subject is made from
Locke to Kripke and Fodor. The second half contains a theory of
reference which takes seriously the causal notion of reference,
while at the same time preserving Frege's distinction between sense
and reference. The algorithmic theory of reference that results
treats reference in explicitly non-semantical terms. It
incorporates or reflects the latest work in computational logic,
cognitive science, and philosophy of mind.
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