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Pragmatism and Reference
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BOERSEMA David.

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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Reference and Referring
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O\'Rourke, Michael,Inland Northwest Philosophy ConferenceSlater, Matthew H.,Kabasenche, William P.,

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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Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts
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Pylyshyn, Zenon W.,Fodor, Jerry A.,

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
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Berger, Alan.

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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A mark of the mental :in defense of informational teleosemantics
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Neander, Karen,

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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Representation and reality
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Putnam, Hilary.

"A Bradford book."Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge…

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0585021228
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1 online resource (xv, 136 pages).
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