Names and Context : A Use-Sensitive Philosophical Account, Hardcover by Rami,...

Description: Names and Context : A Use-Sensitive Philosophical Account, Hardcover by Rami, Dolf, ISBN 1350180629, ISBN-13 9781350180628, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and reference of proper names by providing an overview of the theory and developing a new contextualist account of names. Questions about the use and features of proper names are at the centre of philosophy of language. How does a single proper name refer to the same thing in different contexts of use? What makes a thing a bearer of a proper name? What is their meaning? Guided by these questions, Rami discusses Saul Kripke's main contributions to the debate and introduces a new way to capture the rigidity of names, proposing a pluralist version of the causal chain picture. Covering popular contextualist accounts of names, both indexical and variabilist, he presents a use-sensitive alternative based on a semantic comparison between names, pronouns and demonstratives. Extending and applying his approach to a wide variety of uses, including names in fiction, this is a comprehensive explanation of why we should interpret proper names as context-dependent expressions"--

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