Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our misunderstanding 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, proportional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.
| ISBN: | 9781575864327 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2004 |
| Author: | Kenneth A Taylor |
| Publisher: | Centre for the Study of Language & Information |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 300 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Philosophy of mind |