Reference and the Rational Mind: Volume 153

By Kenneth A. Taylor

Book Overview

Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the ways in which mind, language, and world relate to one another. In exploring these consequences, this book defends a version of referentialism about names, demonstratives, and indexicals, in a manner appropriate for scholars and students in philosophy or the cognitive sciences.

To demonstrate his view, Kenneth A. Taylor offers original and provocative accounts of a wide variety of semantic, pragmatic, and psychological phenomena, such as empty names, propositional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575864320
• ISBN13: 9781575864327
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"