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Pragmatism and Reference
Despite a revival of interest in pragmatist philosophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists & contemporary neopragmatists. This text arues that a pragmatist perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative to the prevailing analytic views on the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268882
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- 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
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Discrete choice theory of product differentiation
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. This important study shows that an understanding of product differentiation is crucial to understanding how modern market economies function and that differentiated markets can be analyzed using discrete choice models of consumer behavior.
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- 9780262267120
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 423 pages) :illustrations
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Shopping for good
Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262306058
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- 1 online resource (103 pages).
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Reference and Referring
Original essays on reference and referring by leading scholars that combine breadth of coverage with thematic unity. These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring in terms of an ongoing dialogue between Fregean and Ru…
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- 9780262306034
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- 1 online resource.
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California cuisine and just food
An account of the shift in focus to access and fairness among San Francisco Bay Area alternative food activists and advocates.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305853
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts
Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320320
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- 1 online resource (193 pages) :illustrations
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Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric
A Bradford book."In this book, Alan Berger further develops the new theory of reference -- as formulated by Kripke and Putnam -- applying it in novel ways to many philosophical problems concerning reference and existence. Berger argues that his notion of anaphoric background condition and anaphoric links within a linguistic community are crucial not only to a theory of reference, but to the ana…
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- 9780262268219
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages).
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Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account
"A Bradford book."Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy, showing that quantificational accounts not only are as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of da…
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- 9780262277174
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages).
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A mark of the mental :in defense of informational teleosemantics
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339865
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- 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Computational models of referring :a study in cognitive science
"To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. The act of referring, which anchors words to things, is a fundamental aspect of language. In this book, Kees van Deemter shows that computational models of reference offer attractive tools for capturing the complexity of referring. Indeed, the models van Deemter presents cover many issues beyond the basic idea of refer…
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- 9780262335324
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- 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
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