How Do Proper Names Really Work? : : A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory / / Claudio Ferreira-Costa.
For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endors...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Philosophical Analysis ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 251 p.) |
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Summary: | For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name's cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan's main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan's and John Perry's views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam's externalism. |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110985740 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319223 9783111318646 |
ISSN: | 2627-227X ; |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Claudio Ferreira-Costa. |