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The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches
to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty
names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions,
individuals, reference, designation, sense and semantics. The
contributions show the importance and lasting influence of theories
proposed by John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell,
Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Individual chapters assess
traditional analyses and modern controversies, and contribute to
the debate on proper names in contemporary philosophy of language.
This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and
descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two
main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms
are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author analyzes
the main versions of these two types of theories and claims that
the differences between them are not as great as it is usually
assumed. He alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and
reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-causal, and he
also adduces that the relation of kind-identity depends on the
views on kind-identity and thus involves descriptive elements. This
book is an important contribution to the debate on reference in
contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.
El problema de la referencia es uno de los problemas fundamentales
de la filosofia. Formulado de manera general, es el problema de
como nuestras palabras y nuestros pensamientos se conectan con los
objetos o individuos sobre los que hablamos o pensamos. Este libro
versa sobre la referencia de los nombres propios, una de las
cuestiones de mayor discusion en el ambito contemporaneo de la
filosofia del lenguaje, marcada por dos lineas teoricas
fundamentales, la teoria descriptiva y la historico-casual. Esta
ultima constituye desde los anos setenta del siglo pasado el
paradigma dominante. La presente obra tiene un doble objetivo. Por
una parte, expone y comenta las ideas principales que articulan las
teorias de los representantes mas destacados de ambos tipos de
teorias de la referencia. Por otra, sostiene que los argumentos mas
importantes formulados contra la teoria descriptiva, es decir, los
argumentos en torno a la ignorancia y el error, no constituyen
objeciones decisivas contra tal tipo de teoria o, al menos, contra
ciertas versiones de la misma.
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