Language, names, and information /
"Saul Kripke's classic lectures, Naming and Necessity, changed the way we think about reference and intentionality, but it remains controversial just what the basic lesson of his work should be. In this book, Frank Jackson, with his characteristic clarity of mind and down-to-earth style of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ;
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- Lecture one: the debate over the theory of reference for proper names
- Lecture two: Understanding, representation, information
- Lecture three: ir-content and the set of worlds where a sentence is true
- Lecture four: spaceism
- Lecture five: the informational value of names.