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Descriptions - Softcover

Neale, Stephen

 
9780262640312: Descriptions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262640317 ISBN 13: 9780262640312
Publisher: MIT Press, 1993

Synopsis

In 1905, Bertrand Russell argued that certain logical puzzles are solved if definite descriptions are treated as quantified expressions rather than referential expression, as Frege had thought. Since then, philosophers and, more recently, linguists have debated the relevance of this paradigm to the study of the semantics of natural language. In Descriptions, Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense and extension of Russell's theory, placing it in the center of a theory of singular and nonsingular descriptive phrases and anaphoric pronouns.

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About the Author

Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

From the Back Cover

In Descriptions, Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense, extension, and application of Russell's Theory of Descriptions. He provides a systematic criticism of traditional arguments against this 'paradigm of philosophy' and lucidly demonstrates its importance to contemporary theories of syntax and semantics and to philosophical inquiry.

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Publisher
MIT Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0262640317
ISBN 13 
9780262640312
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
302