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Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism

Name: Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Contributor(s): Soames, Scott Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780691130996
Subtitle	REF & DESCRIPTION
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Publication date	January 2007
Language	English
MRP	£40.00 GBP
Page count	374
Item weight	127 g

In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance.

Arguing against this reinterpretation, Soames shows how the descriptivist revival has been aided by puzzles and problems ushered in by the anti-descriptivist revolution, as well as by certain errors and missteps in the anti-descriptivist classics themselves. Reference and Description sorts through all this, assesses and consolidates the genuine legacy of Kripke and Kaplan, and launches a thorough and devastating critique of the two-dimensionalist revival of descriptivism. Through it all, Soames attempts to provide the outlines of a lasting, nondescriptivist perspective on meaning, and a nonconceptualist understanding of modality.

Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism

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Soames, Scott Author

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