Referential Mechanics: Direct Reference and the Foundations of Semantics

by Joseph Almog

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language. In the first three chapters, foundational analyses from three philosophers -Saul Kripke, David Kaplan and Keith Donnellan-are dissected in detail. The differences between their respective ideas lead to varying consequences in the philosophy of mind, the metaphysics of necessity, and the epistemological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199314373
• ISBN13: 9780199314379
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"