Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

by Howard Wettstein

Overview

A Stanford UniversityPress classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804718660
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1991
Series:	Stanford Series in Philosophy
Edition description:	1
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction ONE Can What Is Asserted Be a Sentence? TWO Indexical Reference and Propositional Content THREE Proper Names and Propositional Opacity FOUR Demonstrative Reference and Definite Descriptions FIVE The Semantic Significance of the Referential-Attributive Distinction SIX Did the Greeks Really Worship Zeus? SEVEN How to Bridge the Gap Between Meaning and Reference EIGHT Frege-Russell Semantics? NINE Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? TEN Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content ELEVEN Turning the Tables on Frege, or How Is It That “Hesperus Is Hesperus” Is Trivial? Notes Index