Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics

by Edited by Simon Blackburn

• ISBN13: 9780521113502
• ISBN10: 0521113504
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original contribution to them.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The problem of necessary truth

'Alternative' in 'alternative logic'

Quantification, modality, and indirect speech

Proper names, reference, and rigid designation

Conversational implicatures Ralph

The identity of propositions

Bibliographical index

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