Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference

Michael Jubien (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10857-7 (ISBN)

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This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name. It questions the prevalent view that names 'refer to' or 'denote' the things they name. Instead it presents a new theory of proper names, according to which names express certain special properties that the things they name exhibit. This theory leads to some important conclusions about whether things have any of their properties as a matter of necessity. This will be an important book for philosophers in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, though it will also interest linguists concerned with the semantics of natural language.

Preface; 1. Ontology; 2. Things and their parts; 3. Some properties of things; 4. A theory of names; 5. Necessity and essentialism; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.4.2009
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	190 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-521-10857-8 / 0521108578
ISBN-13	978-0-521-10857-7 / 9780521108577
Zustand	Neuware