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Language, Names, and Information

Language, Names, and Information

Frank Jackson
Barcode 9781405161589
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Release Date: 06/08/2010

Genre: Language & Reference
Label: Wiley-Blackwell
Series: Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
Language: English
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Challenges the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water. This title discusses several topics, including representation and information, two-dimensionalism, possible worlds, and broad versus narrow content.
Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.

  • Challenges current pervasive view that the description theory of reference for proper names has been refuted
  • Discusses several topics at the center of current debates, including representation and information, two-dimensionalism, possible worlds, and broad vs. narrow content
  • Maintains the conversational and somewhat informal tone of the original lectures upon which the book is based


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