Beyond Rigidity
Subtitle: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780195145298
First sentence: This book is concerned with rigid designation in particular and, more generally, with the unfinished semantic agenda that has been left to us by Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: v; label: 1
title: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Rigid Designation and Its Lessons for the Semantic Contents of Proper Names
pagenum: 18; label: 3
title: The Meaning of Names
pagenum: 55; label: 4
title: Ambiguity and Indexicality
pagenum: 96; label: 5
title: Partially Descriptive Names
pagenum: 110; label: 6
title: The Problem Posed by Propositional Attitude Ascriptions
pagenum: 131; label: 7
title: The Case Against Linguistically Enhanced Propositions
pagenum: 147; label: 8
title: Millian Meaning and Pseudo-Fregean Attitudes
pagenum: 204; label: 9
title: What Is It for a General Term to Be a Rigid Designator?
pagenum: 241; label: 10
title: What Do Natural Kind Predicates Have in Common with Proper Names?
pagenum: 264; label: 11
title: Natural Kind Predicates, Mass Nounse, and Abstract Singular Terms
pagenum: 289; title: Notes
pagenum: 313; title: Index
pagenum: 373