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Empty Representations
. Ed(S): Garcia-Carpintero, Manuel; Marti, Genoveva
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Description for Empty Representations
The contents of linguistic and mental representations may seem to be individuated by what they are about. But a problem arises with regard to representation of the non-existent - words and thoughts that are about things that don't exist. Fourteen new essays get to grips with this much-debated problem. Editor(s): Garcia-Carpintero, Manuel; Marti, Genoveva. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPL; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 702.
It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about. But what about singular terms that seem to fail to designate anything, because the objects they refer to don't exist? We can employ these terms in meaningful thought and talk, which suggests that they are succeeding in fulfilling their representational task. A team of leading experts presents new essays on the much-debated problem of empty reference and thought. In the 1960s and 1970s Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam initiated a revolution in the then standard ... Read more
It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about. But what about singular terms that seem to fail to designate anything, because the objects they refer to don't exist? We can employ these terms in meaningful thought and talk, which suggests that they are succeeding in fulfilling their representational task. A team of leading experts presents new essays on the much-debated problem of empty reference and thought. In the 1960s and 1970s Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam initiated a revolution in the then standard ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199647057
SKU
V9780199647057
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About . Ed(S): Garcia-Carpintero, Manuel; Marti, Genoveva
Manuel García-Carpintero was awarded a 'Distinció de Recerca' for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2009 the prize 'ICREA Acadèmia' for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, to work on a book on the nature of assertion and reference (2009-2013). ; Genoveva Martí is a member elect of the Academia ... Read more
Reviews for Empty Representations
García-Carpintero and Martí have curated some of the latest and best work on the topic, in one convenient and well-edited format. The volume accordingly stands as an excellent sample of the most cutting-edge thinking on these issues.
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