CSLI, 2004 eISBN: 978-1-68400-015-9 | Paper: 978-1-57586-432-7 | Cloth: 978-1-57586-431-0 Library of Congress Classification B105.R25T39 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 121.68
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the ways in which mind, language, and world relate to one another. In exploring these consequences, this book defends a version of referentialism about names, demonstratives, and indexicals, in a manner appropriate for scholars and students in philosophy or the cognitive sciences.
To demonstrate his view, Kenneth A. Taylor offers original and provocative accounts of a wide variety of semantic, pragmatic, and psychological phenomena, such as empty names, propositional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction vii
I What's in a Name? 1
1 Lexical Syntax vs Lexical Semantics 1
2 An Anaphoric Treatment of Frege's Puzzle 3
3 Names Contrasted With Deictics 6
4 On the Type-Individuation of Names 8
5 An Anaphoric Treatment of Kripke's Puzzle 12
6 Empty Names and the Anaphoric Thesis 14
7 Names and Principle C 17
8 On the Pragmatics of Substitution 21
9 Conclusions 31
II The Psychology of Direct Reference 33
1 Preliminaries 33
2 Concepts vs Conceptions: A Referentialist Approach 34
3 What that Clauses Do Not Specify 48
III Recanati's Accommodationist Neo-Russellianism 57
IV Meaning, Reference and Cognitive Significance\csli@forText $^*$ 85
1 Frege on Sense, Reference and Cognitive Significance 85
1.1 A Fregean Conception of Semantic Competence 89
2 Against FAC 96
2.1 PHCS and Coarse-Grain Propositions 97
2.2 PHCS and Fine-Grain Propositions 103
3 Rejoinders 107
3.1 Metalinguistic Rejoinders 108
3.2 A Neo-Fregean Rejoinder 112
3.3 Interpreted Logical Forms 117
4 Against CCRD 129
4.1 Publicity meets the Idiosyncracy of Epistemic Access 130
5 Concluding Remarks and a Look Ahead 137
V How to Select a Mode of Reference 141
1 Preliminaries 141
2 An Intuition Pump 143
3 Indexically Locating Reference 149
4 A Semantic Interlude: Anchoring Directives and Anchoring Routines 156
5 Conclusion 165
VI Emptiness without Compromise\csli@forContents : A Referentialist
Semantics for Empty Names \csli@forText : A Referentialist Semantics for
Empty Names 169
VII Singular Beliefs and their Ascriptions 193
1 Preliminaries 193
2 Belief Content as the Joint Product of Mind and World 194
3 On the Incredibility of Merely Notional Contents 209
4 On the Notional Primacy of Fulsomely De Re Ascriptions 214
5 Conclusion 229
VIII We've Got You Coming and Going\csli@forText $^*$ 233
IX Sex, Breakfast, and Descriptus Interruptus\csli@forText $^*$ 255
1 Preliminaries 255
2 Sex and Breakfast 256
3 Descriptus Interruptus 266
4 A Gricean Conclusion 270
X Same Believers 273
XI Narrow Content Functionalism and the Mind-Body Problem$^*$ 287
1 Preliminaries 287
2 The Initial Argument 289
3 De Dicto Semantic Types 293
4 Fraternal Twin Earth 298
XII Supervenience and Levels of Meaning\csli@forText $^*$ 307
1 Appendix I 319
1.1 White's Formal Definitions 319
2 Appendix II: Partial Character in the Theory of Meaning 320
XIII What in Nature is the Compulsion of Reason? 325
1 Prima Facie Conflicts 325
2 An Unnatural History of Reason 339
3 Norms of Reflection 353
XIV Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Rational Intentionality 359
1 Preliminaries 359
2 Toward the Naturalization of Reason 362
2.1 The Consequentialist Intuition 362
2.2 Toward the Internalist Intuition 366
2.3 The Kantian Intuiton 370
2.4 A Kantian Reconciliation 378
3 The Great Chain of Intentionality: From Sentience to Sapience 389
3.1 Of Pouncers and Frogs 389
3.2 Aggregating up: A Sketch 399
References 403
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the ways in which mind, language, and world relate to one another. In exploring these consequences, this book defends a version of referentialism about names, demonstratives, and indexicals, in a manner appropriate for scholars and students in philosophy or the cognitive sciences.
To demonstrate his view, Kenneth A. Taylor offers original and provocative accounts of a wide variety of semantic, pragmatic, and psychological phenomena, such as empty names, propositional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction vii
I What's in a Name? 1
1 Lexical Syntax vs Lexical Semantics 1
2 An Anaphoric Treatment of Frege's Puzzle 3
3 Names Contrasted With Deictics 6
4 On the Type-Individuation of Names 8
5 An Anaphoric Treatment of Kripke's Puzzle 12
6 Empty Names and the Anaphoric Thesis 14
7 Names and Principle C 17
8 On the Pragmatics of Substitution 21
9 Conclusions 31
II The Psychology of Direct Reference 33
1 Preliminaries 33
2 Concepts vs Conceptions: A Referentialist Approach 34
3 What that Clauses Do Not Specify 48
III Recanati's Accommodationist Neo-Russellianism 57
IV Meaning, Reference and Cognitive Significance\csli@forText $^*$ 85
1 Frege on Sense, Reference and Cognitive Significance 85
1.1 A Fregean Conception of Semantic Competence 89
2 Against FAC 96
2.1 PHCS and Coarse-Grain Propositions 97
2.2 PHCS and Fine-Grain Propositions 103
3 Rejoinders 107
3.1 Metalinguistic Rejoinders 108
3.2 A Neo-Fregean Rejoinder 112
3.3 Interpreted Logical Forms 117
4 Against CCRD 129
4.1 Publicity meets the Idiosyncracy of Epistemic Access 130
5 Concluding Remarks and a Look Ahead 137
V How to Select a Mode of Reference 141
1 Preliminaries 141
2 An Intuition Pump 143
3 Indexically Locating Reference 149
4 A Semantic Interlude: Anchoring Directives and Anchoring Routines 156
5 Conclusion 165
VI Emptiness without Compromise\csli@forContents : A Referentialist
Semantics for Empty Names \csli@forText : A Referentialist Semantics for
Empty Names 169
VII Singular Beliefs and their Ascriptions 193
1 Preliminaries 193
2 Belief Content as the Joint Product of Mind and World 194
3 On the Incredibility of Merely Notional Contents 209
4 On the Notional Primacy of Fulsomely De Re Ascriptions 214
5 Conclusion 229
VIII We've Got You Coming and Going\csli@forText $^*$ 233
IX Sex, Breakfast, and Descriptus Interruptus\csli@forText $^*$ 255
1 Preliminaries 255
2 Sex and Breakfast 256
3 Descriptus Interruptus 266
4 A Gricean Conclusion 270
X Same Believers 273
XI Narrow Content Functionalism and the Mind-Body Problem$^*$ 287
1 Preliminaries 287
2 The Initial Argument 289
3 De Dicto Semantic Types 293
4 Fraternal Twin Earth 298
XII Supervenience and Levels of Meaning\csli@forText $^*$ 307
1 Appendix I 319
1.1 White's Formal Definitions 319
2 Appendix II: Partial Character in the Theory of Meaning 320
XIII What in Nature is the Compulsion of Reason? 325
1 Prima Facie Conflicts 325
2 An Unnatural History of Reason 339
3 Norms of Reflection 353
XIV Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Rational Intentionality 359
1 Preliminaries 359
2 Toward the Naturalization of Reason 362
2.1 The Consequentialist Intuition 362
2.2 Toward the Internalist Intuition 366
2.3 The Kantian Intuiton 370
2.4 A Kantian Reconciliation 378
3 The Great Chain of Intentionality: From Sentience to Sapience 389
3.1 Of Pouncers and Frogs 389
3.2 Aggregating up: A Sketch 399
References 403
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