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Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
Soames, Scott (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
Soames, Scott (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
Introducing a conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertion made by utterances, this book looks at the meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates. It also explains their use in attitude ascriptions, and demonstrates the limitation of rigid designation.
392 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 31, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780195145281 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 392 |
Dimensions | 211 × 145 × 36 mm · 562 g |