Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
Número de páginas: 280 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 18-05-2023
EAN: 9781350197220
ISBN: 978-1-350-19722-0
Precio (sin IVA): 38,77 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 40,32 €
Questions about the use and semantic 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 two new ways 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.