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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