The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

The 41 chapters by philosophers of language are split into ten parts, including. Early Descriptive Theories; Causal Theories of Reference; Alternate Theories; Two-Dimensional Semantics; Natural Kind Terms and Rigidity; The Empty Case; Singular (de re) Thought; Indexicals. For undergraduates and above.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about. The volumes forty-one original chapters, written by many of todays leading philosophers of language, are organized into ten parts:

Early Descriptive Theories
Causal Theories of Reference
Causal Theories and Cognitive Significance
Alternate Theories
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Natural Kind Terms and Rigidity
The Empty Case
Singular (De Re) Thoughts
Indexicals
Epistemology of Reference

Contributions consider what kinds of expressions actually refer (names, general terms, indexicals, empty terms, sentences), what referring expressions refer to, what makes an expression refer to whatever it does, connections between meaning and reference, and how we know facts about reference. Many contributions also develop connections between linguistic reference and issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

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