Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 359 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691121001
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069113099X
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1282086650
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1400826454
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9780691121000
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9780691130996
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9781282086654
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9781400826452
Content:
In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain
Content:
A WORD ABOUT NOTATION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: THE REVOLT AGAINST DESCRIPTIVISM; CHAPTER 1 The Traditional Descriptivist Picture; CHAPTER 2 Attack on the Traditional Picture Proper Names, Non-Descriptionality, and Rigid Designation; PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVIST RESISTANCE: THE ORIGINS OF AMBITIOUS TWO-DIMENSIONALISM; CHAPTER 3 Reasons for Resistance and the Strategy for Descriptivist Revival; CHAPTER 4 Roots of Two-Dimensionalism in Kaplan and Kripke; CHAPTER 5 Stalnaker 's Two-Dimensionalist Model of Discourse
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Originally published: 2005
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Soames, Scott Reference and description Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 2007
Language:
English
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